Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case with the birds almost disappearing

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

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

It was acquired by Shermin Williams in 1929

6 1/4" x 3 3/4" x 3/4"

looking propped perhaps for some fruit picking

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case with the birds almost disappearingThis 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.