Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant carved ornament with lots of wear/loss to

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

perfectly balanced with abstract flourish on the other side

two on the smaller

arguing for the responsiveness of modern architecture

I am guessing this is a box that was built around the lid--i

Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant carved ornament with lots of wear/loss toI'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