In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame tonka truck The bright yellow and orange

The bright yellow and orange rings around her almost suggest someone's viewing her through a scope from afar

The vase is signed with what looks like "Sena" on the bottom

makes me think perhaps caved by a practiced decoy maker

just some staining here and there

Feels very Bauhaus era (I thought perhaps German or Austrian from a distance) but also very Japanese

In Memory of My 19th Birthday, 1864, Ink Drawing in Period Frame tonka truck The bright yellow and orangeA perfect 19th birthday present if I ever saw one though also for anyone who can remember being nineteen, in my case very distantly! One certainly wonders what all happened that year in the life of the Frank Ellis who drew this in 1864 during the Civil War, with the arching stalks and capillary like branches of what I take for boughs of a fruit tree having a bit of the mournful quality of a weeping willow. But, yet, a pot of blooming flowers right at