Flowers and Strawberries in Basket, Early Naive Ink and Watercolor on Wove antique seascape painting I am fairly certain this

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

Hard not to think of the big bad wolf knocking on the door

with the shape of the legs

poster boards

Flowers and Strawberries in Basket, Early Naive Ink and Watercolor on Wove antique seascape painting I am fairly certain thisYou 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