Mattie and Ollie's Watercolor Butterflies, 1881 antique shell box Box measures 7" x 7"

Box measures 7" x 7" x 1 1/4"

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

but I always like the unusual ones

with the pedestal base making a trivet underneath it unnecessary

5” diameter x 4 1/8” t and in good used vintage condition

Mattie and Ollie's Watercolor Butterflies, 1881 antique shell box Box measures 7" x 7"I 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.