"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier horn handle with spare but specific details

with spare but specific details

which seems rather aligned with his youthfulness and rather searching expression (and I must say that without the red robe and tassel

This one features a luscious cream glaze pooling over a variegated pale gray-blue

A terrific vintage hand-carved wooden boxer

and symbolic

"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier horn handle with spare but specific detailsI might guess that this watercolor was done by the mother of this child, perhaps made for her husband, who perhaps was away, or for a friend without children, and I would think done with no small dose of irony. Who knows? Now though, on its own, the text in combination with image might be read in all sorts of ways, including perhaps as expressing the sentiments of the baby, sucking away on what I take as a pacifier. I'm pretty delighted by those two