Bluebirds Over Heart Inside Garland, 19th C. Watercolor with Embossed Gold Foil Diecuts scenic painting and lots of years of

and lots of years of use left in it

I LOVE this

but realized it was probably made as a paperweight + ink pen holder

which make it feel kind of like a little modernist sculpture

Bluebirds Over Heart Inside Garland, 19th C. Watercolor with Embossed Gold Foil Diecuts scenic painting and lots of years ofA lovely, happy thing, surely made as a token of love or friendship, with this pair of crossed bluebirds over blue heart suggesting a very "true blue" bond. And then an embossed foil die cut that looks to me like a boy pouring oil into a lantern, so, one presumes, to keep the flame forever burning. And a harp and horns, too! All wrapped up in a watercolored flowering garland. True love forever, so nice. Framed, as found, in a period frame. 3rd quarter