Children with Coral Under Glass Dome, Victorian Cabinet Card antique ceramics Nice aging to the paint

Nice aging to the paint

topped with a thick coat of varnish or shellac

I have not attempted to scrub or bleach these away

was founded in Washington

Children with Coral Under Glass Dome, Victorian Cabinet Card antique ceramics Nice aging to the paintIt'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