Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant carved ornament 1 1/2” t x 3/4”

1 1/2” t x 3/4” w and in very good antique condition

drawing connections between simple folded shapes and things in the world--the moments abstraction and representation/signification meet

with lots of wear/loss to the green paint of the door stop and his black shoes

I like how the thin strips of wood drawing a line between one house and the other and then again on either far side seem to suggest that this neighborhood might extend ad infinitum in either direction--ah

and at the center

Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant carved ornament 1 1/2” t x 3/4”I'm not altogether certain how to untangle this one, but it appears to me to be a tintype photo of an earlier watercolor, I presume a portrait miniature but perhaps it is a tintype of a daguerreotype of a painting (??) And I love the mystery and ambiguity of it in many respects; while sharing qualities of post mortem daguerreotypes, where infants were carefully laid out in a similar manner here on what looks like a chaise, with a curtain draped behind