Bellflowers, Lovely 1872 Floral Watercolor Signed Marian Marcelin meansuring cup just a couple of years

just a couple of years before the completion of that Art Deco landmark (construction began in 1928

but in the wrong place

with the rope carved in the round as it snakes across the top of the anchor

Disks incised with dial lines  and numbers and letters

very poetic feeling to me and quite striking

Bellflowers, Lovely 1872 Floral Watercolor Signed Marian Marcelin meansuring cup just a couple of yearsI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on another watercolor by this same Marian Marcelin that I listed last week, of an iris she "raised herself," these often seem to me to embody several points of pride at once. And I think this is a lovely example, bellflowers I believe. Signed on reverse and dated 1872. 8 3 8" x 5 3 4" and in excellent antique