Finely Done Antique Flower Specimen Watercolor: Violets bag of clay marbles from what I understand these

from what I understand these sorts of lined sewing baskets were made for the tourist market during the late Victorian era

plus they're super useful in the kitchen for scooping little measures of this or that

Dog: 11" l x 6 5/8" t

I have to think it was meant to be a tomato of sorts

I have found a couple of sets of these online in museum collections (the National Building Museum Architectural Toy Collection for ex

Finely Done Antique Flower Specimen Watercolor: Violets bag of clay marbles from what I understand theseThis is one of several finely executed watercolors of floral specimens I am listing by a May Elizabeth Green, and I must say when I first saw this one I thought for a moment that it was an actual pressed violet from an herbarium. Really delicately done, as it was meant to be, documenting two different varieties of violets and their leaves. 8" x 5 1 8" and in excellent condition. Late 19th century I believe.