Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions Japanese sake cup suggesting it was framed

suggesting it was framed

(But what an amazing crop of gray yarn hair he has

with enamel painted color on the wooden blocks

painted panes and curtains on each of the many windows

I found one other like him a number of months ago and had never seen another

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions Japanese sake cup suggesting it was framedThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one the "positions" of floral blooms lateral, whorled, tubuar, etc with 25 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor. More than ever these days, when delight in the