I've just learned this piece is a quintessential example of the recent work of Bowdoinham
What a tender hand hold between them
the other by the sea
snapping closed nicely at the top
I'm a huge fan of the pitcher as a form (plus a pretty pitcher can always double as a vase)
Plant Samples - Corn and Beans, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 4 couple with umbrella I've just learned this pieceI found together a total of eleven of these rppcs documenting the growth of beans, corn, peas and oats in various soils and combinations, and just love them as beautiful photographs, for their indexical nature, for the wonderful hand written labels on the planters, and for being, as far as I know, quite unusual. The fact that they were produced as postcards suggests they were made to be sent, but the backs are all blank, so perhaps they just served as