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

suggesting it was framed

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

They will also sit/stand freely with one resting upside down on the other as in my photos

with enamel painted color on the wooden blocks

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