Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed painted stone fruit Much aged but I think

Much aged but I think all the better for it

really rather existential feeling

long beard

Baldwin in 1850

Approx 12 1/2" t x 1 5/16" in diameter each

Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed painted stone fruit Much aged but I thinkI'm not the least bit religious, but I find myself more and more attracted to religious icons and artifacts of all sorts, in no small part I think due to the abundance of ornament so often present, even better when some of it is gold! Very similar in manner to a Victorian die cut and paper lace valentine, this I believe could technically be called a Canivet card, an art connected to small devotional images which had its origin in France in the 13th