Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present One can never have enough

One can never have enough pretty small plates -- they're great for cocktail parties

Both the shapes and the placement of those dots is wonderfully irregular

There appears to be an old repair just to the base (a re-glued split) - minor and barely noticeable

so re-positioned it (and easy to do so again if you like

I find it curiously compelling

Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present One can never have enoughI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and girls and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on a watercolor of an iris by a different maker that I listed last week, in many cases these were of flowers women "raised" themselves several points of pride at once. I really like the attention paid to the petals and "beard" on this single bloom, treated a bit like a scientific specimen! Paper 7 5