Bold and Bright 19th Century Mandala-like Watercolor with Pattern Everywhere inut bust stains and some creasing around

stains and some creasing around the edges

and it certainly has a whole lot of life in it yet

And the color palette is fantastic  with five different schemes for the soldiers' uniforms

All those black dots against the glossy white of the celluloid (thin but hard and very durable) really does it for me

which makes one feel now as if peeking into a house abandoned long ago

Bold and Bright 19th Century Mandala-like Watercolor with Pattern Everywhere inut bust stains and some creasing aroundDetails give a sense of how rich the color and intricate the watercolor patterns are here, just wonderful. Seems to me there is not enough written about 19th century abstract folk watercolors like this, which certainly seem to me as if channeling the spirit of the divine. With that hex sort of star at center, I might guess Pennsylvania, and it has a fraktur sort of feel. This one I know came out of the same estate as the pineapple watercolor paper cut