with details showing that the image at this point is really nothing more than a floating face and white collar
with Engle standing beside it
but this is the earliest wooden parquetry set I have come across
Another weird one that I've quickly become very fond of--no fancy transformation of bottle caps into baskets or links here
enduring earth punctuated by tiny
Painterly Pinks, Lovely Victorian Mounted Sea Moss Specimen gold leafed painting with details showing that theI come across lone sea moss samples now and then, which tend to show their age and some related losses, but this just a beauty of an example, very painterly and lush and ethereal feeling, as if still rippling in the current, under the sea. Paper 8 7 8" x 5 11 16". Very good condition, 19th century, securely mounted to good weight paper.