Elegant Dorset Chair, Mounted Photograph with Decorator's Notes hand-painted figure On the underside of the

On the underside of the plates are the solutions to the rebuses

The painting and roughness of the clay surface make it feel even older

Really terrific

and learned that they were a bit of a thing during the Victorian era--some plain like this one

as the white on the dominoes had left some white dots on the backs of the dominoes they were stacked next to--which rubbed off easily with a fingernail

Elegant Dorset Chair, Mounted Photograph with Decorator's Notes hand-painted figure On the underside of theThis just struck me as a lovely thing a handsome chair to begin with, but granted an added elegance and evocativeness via the nature and tonalities of the photograph. With handwritten notes along the bottom, noting the $60 price of the chair and its potential placement in sitting room or bedroom, I assume this was one of a series of furniture options presented to a client by an interior decorator. But, of course, to me it looks like the stage of a