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Mysterious and Very Wonderful Small Metal Cutouts, Presumed 19th Century French (Copy) linen gauze and maybe there's a pile

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and maybe there's a pile of sea mosses gathered just outisde the frame of this painting

I really like its combination of specific details and loose gestures

with tiny spots of brown to perfectly portray the skin and subtle darkening here and there to suggest bruises

and once one has done so

The sides of the vase are finished with two large circular ash ring handles which are bound with ash splints in the "Penobscot star" pattern

Mysterious and Very Wonderful Small Metal Cutouts, Presumed 19th Century French (Copy) linen gauze and maybe there's a pileThese are completely wonderful, but I do not know their original purpose. Perhaps they were votive offerings? I found an image of a pair of French embroidery scissors c. 1850s with one handle very similar in silhouette to the man here, down to his extended hand. And of course the dainty crossed feet of the marvelously silhouetted woman remind me very much of antique machinist made ladies legs calipers. They all feel a bit as if miniature templates for

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