Carol's Watercolor Bluebird paintings (5 1/2" across at handle)

(5 1/2" across at handle)

I have not been able to find anything quite like them online

and seems to rest at a weight a bit to the left of zero--but it's still a great little object

which are black lacquer with incised patterns in green

or on top of a table

Carol's Watercolor Bluebird paintings (5 1/2" across at handle)Another schoolgirl watercolor by Carol, whose wonderful booklet of watercolor vegetables I just listed. I think she must have been pretty proud of this bluebird, as it was claimed not once but three times on the back and rightly so I think! It seems quite possible a teacher outlined the bird in pencil first, with Carol contributing the perfect watery blue and brown, and then a few brown crayon lines for the ground and a pencil scribble or good