Girl with Spools Antique Painting on School Slate rounded box making me think she may

making me think she may be a fertility figure

The flower frog is in very good condition

which feels as much like a sculpture as a utilitarian object

the mane and ears of her lion-dog companion

as there is a hole that runs through the handle near the end through which a string or wire could pass

Girl with Spools Antique Painting on School Slate rounded box making me think she mayI thought this sweet little painting Victorian era, I'd think on an old school slate would make a great gift for an emerging seamstress, or anyone handy with a needle and thread, really. I love how the spool to her left appears to be falling from the sky, like a shooting star, and she reminds me of a waif from Dickens or the like, with this moment signaling her destiny yet to unfold! All of this is made even better by the old gold paint on the wood