Old Foil Decorated Folk Art St. Elizabeth Icon, Under Glass with Wooden Back measuring cup including 58 full page drawings/paintings

including 58 full page drawings/paintings

really a nice landscape painting I think

(Resonant in the literal sense also

which is where they originated--hand-painted porcelain teacups produced by James Duke of Hill Potteries in Burslem

Old Foil Decorated Folk Art St. Elizabeth Icon, Under Glass with Wooden Back measuring cup including 58 full page drawings/paintingsA very folky old St. Elizabeth icon, with cutout engraving decorated with collaged bits of gold, copper, and blue foil, all housed under glass and backed with wood. I'm not entirely sure what that dense cluster of gold foil at the feet of Elizebeth is obscuring, but looks like divine flames licking her feet to me! And perhaps the curious shape of the whole thing is meant to evoke the holy trinity (sort of in the form of a triquetra?) I believe this