Children with Coral Under Glass Dome, Victorian Cabinet Card English drAwing was it "Mother" who made

was it "Mother" who made this and decided to sign it as such

or on its way to being plucked

beautifully carved

I have not touched its surface

This fabulous tabletop sculpture of two lumberjacks sawing a log is the wonderful work of Emile Bluteau (1931-

Children with Coral Under Glass Dome, Victorian Cabinet Card English drAwing was it "Mother" who madeIt's the coral under the glass dome that drew me to this late 19th century cabinet card, stamped J. N Wilson, Savannah Georgia, but the more I look at it the more I love It for the body language of the children the way the boy rests his arm on the table and leans in, as if to assert his ownership over the display (and, it looks to me, his grand ambitions in life, too), while his sister, one assumes, seems to sort of shrink away though I like to think