Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face early american mirror Made all the better by

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a wonderful homespun art nouveau moment

and a couple of deeper gouges on one area of one side

I just love the combination of rusty orange exteriors

Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face early american mirror Made all the better byOne of my favorite July Brimfield finds, from a dealer who always has wonderful and unusual things. (I also bought a ship in a "bottle" with the bottle actually a hollowed out lightbulb.) Quite a delicately carved nude, and I really love the ambiguity of it I believe she is actually meant to be lying down, as if her head resting on a pillow (and with her right breast pulled by gravity in that direction, but then I think the carver was quite attached