Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame mcm puzzle I think it would be

I think it would be just the perfect thing to hang in a guest room

in figuring out the perfect dramatic bloom to have popping out of the top

with light scratching to the enamel of the interior from use

hand-painted in underglaze blue with stylised flowerheads at their centers and loop and dot borders

Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame mcm puzzle I think it would beI'm not entirely certain what is going on in this evocative little watercolor, but I really really love it, with its big dark sky enveloping what looks like a western frontier structure to me, and cowboy looking figures standing next to what I assume is a fire. Considered together with the deer watercolor surely by the same artist, which I just listed, my guess might be that these were done as first hand sketches out west, late 19th century or so,