Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case looking propped perhaps for some

looking propped perhaps for some fruit picking

Plenty of irregularity to the stone and a hairline crack running down one side of his vase back

Sold as found with old masking tape around the borders and on the back

but pretty great still even if you've mastered your multiplication tables

with the birds almost disappearing amid the filagree of leaves--a happy discovery

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case looking propped perhaps for someThis 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 detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.