Antique Folk Art Watercolor and Silk Embroidery on Silk Mourning Picture mushroom This is a beautifully produced

This is a beautifully produced book and a classic one for anyone interested in calligraphy

published in 1835

I'd just put these in a beautiful bowl to admire and pick up now and then

likely 1880s or so

The paper cover is quite worn and the back flap has torn off

Antique Folk Art Watercolor and Silk Embroidery on Silk Mourning Picture mushroom This is a beautifully producedThis charmer! Like a naive schoolgirl drawing rendered in silk embroidery, except for watercolor used for the girls face and pale blue sky behind her. To my eye and sensibilities just wonderful, this blushing girl in her fabulous striped dress (with little blue shoe peeking out) bent forward and looking quite contemplative, her hat in her lap and flowering sprig in the other, and with just a partial view of an urn in front of her. That, along with