Pareglio & Ayres Antiques Interiors has dated this Post Impressionist Floral Painting to the 1890s.
The composition features a central green ceramic jug holding a bouquet of red gladioli. In the foreground sits a pocket watch or a compass in a wooden case alongside a small book.
Also the signature style, although unidentifiable, suggests a Dutch or North European regional hand.

The painting is signed in the lower right above the clear date of 1896 and is housed in its period, rustic molded wooden frame.
The paint layer exhibits widespread, natural age-related craquelure throughout, consistent with its late-19th-century origin. The frame is structurally sound, showing light wear, surface scuffs, and minor separation at the mitered corners appropriate for its age.
Pareglio & Ayres Antiques Interiors has dated this Post Impressionist Floral Painting to the 1890s.
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