Antique Folk Art Watercolor Drawing of Fancy Woman with Bustle Skirt chicago worlds fair and those mustached profiles do

and those mustached profiles do look rather French to me

Its shape is that of a ginger jar

it measures 7” tall x 2 3/4” diameter at widest

and snatch them up whenever I do

counter or shelf as is

Antique Folk Art Watercolor Drawing of Fancy Woman with Bustle Skirt chicago worlds fair and those mustached profiles doI purchased this and a second naive watercolor drawing of an Indian chief, surely by the same maker, from a seller in Pennsylvania, who found them tucked in the back of a late 19th century scrapbook. Their maker certainly had a way with color and wonderful details, in this case from her fabulous feathered hat to her little yellow parasol to those terrific blue boots! And then that little pencil drawn pocket and not one but two bows on her bustle