Hoary Comma Butterfly with Pink Flowers, Lovely 19th Century Ink and Watercolor gaming set One features faces on both

One features faces on both sides--one toothy

but have since learned there is a long history of vessels like this--the earliest example British and dating back to the 1300s--with holes around the lip

Templates of some sort

I'm not always a huge fan of the brown glaze but in this case think it's really beautiful

It is easy to view from either side of County Road 86

Hoary Comma Butterfly with Pink Flowers, Lovely 19th Century Ink and Watercolor gaming set One features faces on bothA few last 19th century ink and watercolor butterfly drawings from a portfolio of half a dozen or so I purchased from a favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley several weeks ago. This butterfly is unidentified on the page, but a quick search tells me the beautiful orange creature is known as a Hoary Comma! Very finely done, with some gold painted details on the body and near interior of the wings, and then this very delicate spring of pink blooms.