Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face early american mirror It really did take me

It really did take me a mirror to decipher the backwards writing on this old wooden t-square

a wonderful homespun art nouveau moment

saying that I am innocent because he was also once a child

I just love the combination of rusty orange exteriors

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

Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face early american mirror It really did take meOne 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