Woman in Blue Bonnet with Dog, 19th Century Folk Watercolor antique puzzle box with "Good Evening My Dear"

with "Good Evening My Dear" wonderfully scrawled down one side

or angled more outwardly to accommodate whatever one might want to put in it

and I love how they are now curled a bit to follow the silhouette of the body

it is hard not to feel cheerful when wrapped up in one

so now it is just a cutout

Woman in Blue Bonnet with Dog, 19th Century Folk Watercolor antique puzzle box with "Good Evening My Dear"The latest in the ongoing series of folk art depictions of women and their dogs that I've had in the shop, my very favorite subject. There is a seascape sketched out in pencil in this one (one can just make out a ship, more of a coast line, and a shining sun), but never finished, leaving the woman and her charming, eager dog a bit unsituated. I rather like how the blue green mass at left arches over them like a giant wave though, or a protective