Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Griebel Instrument co There is a string tied

There is a string tied around the nail holding one leg in place

Made of fine porcelain

but overall excellent condition

Each cup measures about  3" tall and 3 1/2" wide

culture indigenous to  the Brazilian Amazon and believe it likely dates to the earlyish 20th century

Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Griebel Instrument co There is a string tiedA listed artist, Hiram Campbell Merrill (1866 1958) was a Boston born painter and engraver, who in addition to pursuing his own art worked for Harpers magazine in New York. This drawing was made on a trip to Brittany in 1909, during which he made studies that provided material for many later paintings and engravings. And a really lovely drawing it is, of a sprig of a branch with a few furling leaves, which he executed in Taden (a commune in the Ctes