Tiarella Cordifolia (Foamflower) Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium ww1 history bold blue-black and green star-like

bold blue-black and green star-like decoration--all of it exactly matches Mann's other work (including another bowl I had in the shop)

While the tile shows its age in the form of scratches to the surface revealing the red clay below the glaze

and it is a super useful one

I am not certain whether he was made in Alaska or Canada

While I didn't know it when I bought it--though I was pretty sure it was something special--I've learned that this gorgeous

Tiarella Cordifolia (Foamflower) Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium ww1 history bold blue-black and green star-likeI have a fantasy that one day at a flea market I'll uncover a beautiful antique herbarium that's been sitting in the bottom of a box for 150 years or so filled with page upon page of perfectly documented pressed and dried plant specimens. Alas, this has yet to happen, but I did recently find this and one other (listed separately) herbarium pages, I'd guess removed from a larger volume. This one is Tiarella Cordifolio (or foamflower), a flowering