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Birds of the Season $14.00 Is this item in stock? Birds on branches from each season—these refined paintings are from the rare book 100 Birds and Flowers in Japan in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Pair this Keep It Box with a Japanese Blossoms WriteOn! Journal for an elegant gift set.
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GA-5563
White Flowers
$14.00 Is this item in stock? Galison's White Flowers Keep It Box makes a wonderful gift. The box itself reproduces Isaac Sprague's Magnolia grandiflora, created sometime between 1849 and 1859 to accompany a report on the forest trees of North America by Asa Gray. The design is carried through to the inside of the box repeats the design, and the cards are printed with metallic ink. The set includes 5 cards each of the following 4 images, all courtesy of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University:
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GA-5609
Georgia O'Keefe White Flowers $14.00 Is this item in stock? Enjoy closeups of two of Georgia O´Keeffe´s paintings of white flowers: Jimson Weed, 1932, and Cala Lily Turned Away, 1923. Both paintings are in the Georgia O´Keeffe Museum in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Ten cards of each image.
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Bloom $14.00 Is this item in stock? The decorative box of Galison's Mandarin Bloom Keep It Boxnotecards has a striking design of matte silver on navy blue with a silver box lining. It holds 5 each of 4 cards with designs of silver flowers against backgrounds of navy, butterscotch, red, and green. The patterns are borrowed from textile patterns from a 10-volume set of rare books, Shokubun ruisan , (volumes devoted to the art of weaving) compiled by the Imperial Household Museum in Tokyo and issued in 1893. The books are housed in the Art Reference Library of the Brooklyn Museum. A Chinese proverb is quoted on the box: “Flowers leave a part of their fragrance in the hands that bestow them.” Chinese Proverb
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