SOLD Bespectaled Woman with Double Halo! Charming Victorian Wirework Frame with Miniature Photo round trinket box When I first saw one

When I first saw one of these antique French leather doll bodies--to which a bisque head and arms would be attached--I thought it was am extraordinarily constructed

often incorporating marble dust as well to lend more texture and shimmer

finely crafted things

1950s brass alphabet stencils

Larger 4 1/4" x 3 1/2" on wove paper

SOLD Bespectaled Woman with Double Halo! Charming Victorian Wirework Frame with Miniature Photo round trinket box When I first saw oneTo my eye a complete charmer of a an antique miniature portrait frame and all the more so for the photo found in it! Purchased the same week that Maggie Smith died, the woman (I think) in this portrait made me think a bit of her, looking none too easy to please! I also like the sort of halo of radial lines surrounding her head, doubled by the hand painted wreath of flowers granted her by the frame. Great together, but the frame, really a sweet one,