Flowers and Strawberries in Basket, Early Naive Ink and Watercolor on Wove antique seascape painting or a powerful carved or

or a powerful carved or sculpted goddess) looming over

with the shape of the legs

I am fairly certain this lovely small Japanese lacquer on papier mache box dates to Meiji period

and angle of their center lines anything but consistent or straight

Inside are three yellow paint-encrusted blade handles and an assortment of blades all still in good working order

Flowers and Strawberries in Basket, Early Naive Ink and Watercolor on Wove antique seascape painting or a powerful carved orYou know I'm a sucker for a naive floral watercolor, and this I believe is quite an early one, 1st half 19th c.(and I think closer to 1800 than 1850), with a wonderful looseness and sense of whimsy to it indeed, it looks almost as if the basket is about to tip over with the weight of all those flowers! Fabulous woven basket, fabulous flurry of green, with roses and bluebells and pansies and strawberries and who knows what all spilling out. I