Girl with Golden Necklace and Half Hidden Mother, Antique Hand-painted Tintype green and natural and a puzzle box even

and a puzzle box even more

This puppet would be great framed

" but it seems perhaps the boy in white with arms spread is announcing his presence--here I am

and also clear that in many cases there are several duplicates of the same piece included

Girl with Golden Necklace and Half Hidden Mother, Antique Hand-painted Tintype green and natural and a puzzle box evenA girl after my own heart looking full of attitude and with a mind very much of her own. Her hand painted golden necklace makes her feel even more like a princess, with pale blue ribbons and sash to boot. Alone, I would love her, but it is the inclusion of half her mother in the frame that makes this just right to my eye formally compositionally, but also in terms of the dynamic her presence introduces, as if this child were midway through the process