Beautiful Old Four Mast Folk Art Ship in a Bottle in Excellent Paint watercolor on board just a bit of toning

just a bit of toning to the white cotton fabric

How not to feel happy with this guy around

and there are two that are chipped

and I love the combination of gray veins in the marble near the head and the nice patina on this one

Beautiful Old Four Mast Folk Art Ship in a Bottle in Excellent Paint watercolor on board just a bit of toningA real beauty of an old folk art ship in a bottle, which I found yesterday in New Hampshire and believe dates to the about the first decade of the 20th century. Wonderfully done, with four masts supporting a complex matrix of pulled thread lines, all still held taut, and then this fabulous paint job below, with graphic black and white for the hull, and then blue dabs on white for the sea it sails upon, looking like a sponge painted pattern. Plus what