Pair of Love Birds, 1830s Folk Art Watercolor in Period Paint Decorated Frame hand-carved game board Plus a beautiful shirting fabric

Plus a beautiful shirting fabric back that makes me think of Anni Albers

though it would be pretty easy to reorient

I'm not entirely sure what one was meant to do with it--hang it as a wreath

17" l x 8" w x 1/4" thick and in very good

January 1898

Pair of Love Birds, 1830s Folk Art Watercolor in Period Paint Decorated Frame hand-carved game board Plus a beautiful shirting fabricA very naive early watercolor of a pair of lovebirds sitting atop a nest of green punctuated by pink roses well, of course. And in a great paint decorated frame of the same period, which makes it feel all the sweeter. 1836 is written on the back of the frame of this one, I am more or less certain noting the precise year of the watercolor's making (probably written on the back of the watercolor itself.) Charming. 7 1 4" x 4 3 4". Wear to the surface of