Self-reflexive 19th Century Watercolor Rose with Torn and Taped Stem antique English pottery painted brown to pretty effectively

painted brown to pretty effectively match color of the wood

and shining rather like liquid gold in the light

so it is white paint rather than bare wood showing through in a few spots on those

He will balance on his own in a few different positions and is easily hung on the wall via the hole in his belly

Self-reflexive 19th Century Watercolor Rose with Torn and Taped Stem antique English pottery painted brown to pretty effectivelyI am a bit obsessed with this one. It is a fine, c. mid 19th century watercolor of a rose, which was very precisely cutout and pasted down onto this piece of card (by it's original maker I believe). But in that cutting process, I presume, the paper stem of the watercolor rose tore, and so they pasted it down above. And so, the presence of that broken stem, which casts just a bit of a shadow onto the page, tells us not just that the rose itself was cut