Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor antique seashell engraving There is a small hole

There is a small hole in the top of the wood and another directly below it in the bottom

and this drawing

This guy though has strings still attached to head

Small but wonderfully detailed--all that intensively carved fur and those tiny little feet and crosshatched tail

structurally very sturdy and sound

Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor antique seashell engraving There is a small holeI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and girls and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on a watercolor of an iris by a different maker that I listed last week, in many cases these were of flowers women "raised" themselves several points of pride at once. I really like the attention paid to the petals and "beard" on this single bloom, treated a bit like a scientific specimen! Paper 7 5