Juniper Branch with Berries, 1831 Signed Watercolor with Hand-written Poem on Reverse cylindrical vase or perhaps could be put

or perhaps could be put to use in a new way

Quite an interesting piece of history I think

There are holes on either end of the top edge that would hold screw-in hooks

with what looks like a  swath of matching fabric draped over the side of whatever it is she is resting her hand upon

Definitely it was much used

Juniper Branch with Berries, 1831 Signed Watercolor with Hand-written Poem on Reverse cylindrical vase or perhaps could be putA sprig of deep blue Juniper berries, so delicately rendered and so pretty. Watercolor on laid (the paper itself watermarked 1827) with the watercolor signed and dated July 26, 1831 in ink at lower left. And with a handwritten poem, suggesting this was made as a token of friendship (as seems most everything was in the 1830s!), on reverse: "Love is like the shadow seems when the beam first lights the skies Friendship is the shadow thrown when the day