Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face early american mirror but not this one

but not this one

which have a really nice object-hood

Gerring to whom it was sent

I just love the combination of rusty orange exteriors

Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face early american mirror but not this oneOne 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