Mattie and Ollie's Watercolor Butterflies, 1881 antique shell box I will follow up to

I will follow up to invoice the difference

2 1/2" t x 7/8" wide and deep

but I always like the unusual ones

I read this painting as portraying a figure (whom I take for a woman) carrying a load (looks like bundle of kindling

with the pedestal base making a trivet underneath it unnecessary

Mattie and Ollie's Watercolor Butterflies, 1881 antique shell box I will follow up toI believe this watercolor likely came out of a Victorian friendship book and what a wonderful articulation of friendship to have one butterfly painted by Mattie, age 11, and one by Ollie, 9, fluttering happily together since 1881. Sweet and lovely. 7 1 8" x 4", very good antique condition.