SOLD Charming and Unusual Earlier 19th Century Watercolor and Cut Paper Pineapple in Presumed Original Frame pottery bowls And poignant

And poignant

Really a cool piece

the composition of which seems specifically designed to accommodate the branch of the tree glimpsed through the window

large and worn enough to suggest there were many many days featuring New Songs

Paper lace communion cards/holy cards were fairly common in the mid to later 19th century

SOLD Charming and Unusual Earlier 19th Century Watercolor and Cut Paper Pineapple in Presumed Original Frame pottery bowls And poignantOne of my favorite Brimfield finds, this really delights me, including for being quite unusual as far as I've ever seen, part watercolor and part paper cut. And what better way to represent the lattice like skin of a pineapple than this??! In this country the pineapple, accessible only via import from the Caribbean, became a symbol of wealth and hospitality during colonial times apparently, wealthy colonists and plantation owners would rent pineapples