Pattern Perfection: Finely Executed Interior Design Watercolor with Ship (and Pirate Flag) dance mask Certainly used

Certainly used

Color is close to a sepia tone but not completely

or was particularly attached to owls

visible only from the backside

Pattern Perfection: Finely Executed Interior Design Watercolor with Ship (and Pirate Flag) dance mask Certainly usedA marvelous example of an "interior" watercolor, which I believe would have been done with the practical purpose for representing the proposed design for a room, or as an exercise for a decorator in training. This one feels to me like a flight of whimsy pure ornamental pleasure! The model ship with gold sails at center features a pirate flag with skull and cross bones, flying right in front on the peacock on the textile hanging behind it, which I