SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child vintage barware It is in very good

It is in very good condition and I believe was indeed used

(The Coushatta are a matrilineal society native to Southwest Louisiana recognized as a sovereign nation in 1973

It appears this was long ago painted gold

but the paint job on the mustard yellow cow with blue eye and cowbell is pretty hard to beat

and the moat-like platform it sits on

SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child vintage barware It is in very goodI only buy things I like and would be happy to keep, but this is one of those I'd be especially fine holding on to ; I really really really love pinprick decorated watercolors, and this I believe is quite a phenomenal example. What an incredible density of tiny tiny pricked holes, making the hat and robe of this man feel quite like a cloud, and with what appear like angel wings (though perhaps a large pack) emerging from his back. The effect to my eye