Upright Planes / Dialling: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolor Diagrams in Double Sided Frame tally machine though someone would need to

though someone would need to be pretty special to deserve one of these

then the face--seeming to me exactly the face that a coffee cup should have--was incised and and clay eyes added

I have since found others similar (including in museum collections) and know that it likely came from Guererro in Mexico

and rather transcends its folk nature to feel like a tiny modernist sculpture

Not at all a masterful painting

Upright Planes / Dialling: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolor Diagrams in Double Sided Frame tally machine though someone would need toThis is one of three double sided pages from an early 19th c. Newburyport, MA school notebook I'm listing clearly the work of one person which came from the collection of longtime New England collectors Bev and John Titus. I love early watercolored lettering and diagrams just about as much as anything in the world (and have also been kind of obsessed with sun dials lately) so swooned when I saw these. Both I believe relate to the scientific basis of