Baby in Christening Dress with Elaborately Hidden Mother Antique TIntype wooden tiger and a feeling of this

and a feeling of this rose as a very living thing

perhaps made by by one of those machinist's as a gift

I don't think that the maker of this jar was an amazing potter--the walls are thick and the form a little clunky--but the green glaze is really terrific

who shared that two generations of children in the family had played with them as children

Baby in Christening Dress with Elaborately Hidden Mother Antique TIntype wooden tiger and a feeling of thisI presume it is a mother hidden somewhere there under this wide and ambling drape of cloth an unusual expanse as far as I've seen. What I really like here is the play between that horizontal stretch of draping, almost like a landscape of dark cloth, and long, vertical drape of this child's white (christening?) gown, falling all the way to the ground. And then of course that baby's wide eyed face at the center of it all, looking simultaneously relaxed