I Like You If You Like Me Hand-painted Watercolor Postcard Japanese boy I've just learned this piece

I've just learned this piece is by well known ceramic artist Andrew Martin

then varnished

While I've held on to the mat because it is signed

which make it appear as if the bird is perched on a driftwood limb that extends from the trunk of a tree

I Like You If You Like Me Hand-painted Watercolor Postcard Japanese boy I've just learned this pieceI really really love this old hand painted postcard the tongue on that little black dog! It reminds me of passed notes in grade school (i. e. 'Do You Like XX? Check Yes or No') but how much more charming, with this wonderful little girl in floppy hat and I'm not quite sure what in her hands (the postcard?), marching hearts along the bottom, and the perfect phrase to cautiously broadcast her affection for the recipient who appears first to have been a