1873 Ink Drawing of Bridge Over River in Tree Dotted Landscape vintage clocks Plus this wonderfully obsessive pinprick

Plus this wonderfully obsessive pinprick pattern covering every inch of the surface

Such a sweet and curious little owl

--hand thrown porcelain lidded vessel

minor bumping to corners and a few small stains

I've become really enamored of the way the gold paint on old tramp art pieces like this softens and mellows with age--in this case I think at least a hundred years time has resulted in mellow gold perfection

1873 Ink Drawing of Bridge Over River in Tree Dotted Landscape vintage clocks Plus this wonderfully obsessive pinprickQuite a charming naive pen and ink drawing I think, with wonderful attention and a certain committed precision given to each tree, and brick on the bridge viaduct, and to the patterns of grass, etc what a lot of energetic mark making! I really love the awkward placement of the one tree just to center left of the bridge, as if just floating, and the silhouette of the hills in the distance dotted with trees here and there. But really, I love everything