The Best Kitty, Wonderful Antique Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame club checkers and even better if serves

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Makes me wonder about that Zeph Magill

8 3/8" x 6 3/4"

dating to 1831

Carved and stained a very dark brown which reads as nearly black

The Best Kitty, Wonderful Antique Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame club checkers and even better if servesA gem of a naive 19th century watercolor in perfectly suited period frame, perhaps original to it. Not one thing more or less than exactly right I think, with a wonderful painterliness to the body of the very cat like cat animating it with lots of life, and just a few strokes of china blue turning the bowl, too, into something special. Really quite an elegant feeling little painting as well as a charmingly naive one, likely done by a school child. I