Maggie Eppley's Early Basket of Flowers Watercolor Theroem in Original Frame tray serving tray I just love the pips

I just love the pips

Some interior staining from use as a planter and a few unglazed spots/glaze chips around the interior lip

as well as a treat to use

This Botany notebook from 1823 is the humblest looking from the outside with just a simple brown paper cover

Maggie Eppley's Early Basket of Flowers Watercolor Theroem in Original Frame tray serving tray I just love the pipsSome fading to the once more pink red flowers at center of this one, but it's an early one, and to my eye the electric blue of the surrounding flowers more than compensates, and the boldly painted basket does, too. Especially nice to have Maggie J. Eppley beautifully spelled out below in inked fraktur letters and to find "drawed by Miss Rachel Eppling" written on the back of the frame in graphite, indicating that this is is most surely its original