Finely Done Antique Flower Specimen Watercolor: Violets colonial with a gold grip around

with a gold grip around the handle

but I'd love to see it incorporated into a new creation

it's just a completely lovely thing

Here I believe the portrait was executed in a combination of charcoal

3 1/8" tall x 1 1/2" wide x 1" thick

Finely Done Antique Flower Specimen Watercolor: Violets colonial with a gold grip aroundThis 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.