Flowers and Strawberries in Basket, Early Naive Ink and Watercolor on Wove antique seascape painting stable no and I don't

stable no and I don't think detracting

dating to the 1940s I am pretty certain

which happily one can turn and rearrange as desired (the bone posts are easily removed from the undersides of the narwhal and holes in base

Such a special one

Flowers and Strawberries in Basket, Early Naive Ink and Watercolor on Wove antique seascape painting stable no and I don'tYou know I'm a sucker for a naive floral watercolor, and this I believe is quite an early one, 1st half 19th c.(and I think closer to 1800 than 1850), with a wonderful looseness and sense of whimsy to it indeed, it looks almost as if the basket is about to tip over with the weight of all those flowers! Fabulous woven basket, fabulous flurry of green, with roses and bluebells and pansies and strawberries and who knows what all spilling out. I