Antique Magic Lantern Slip Slide, My Own Blue Bell(e) celadon vase very folky feeling

very folky feeling

I especially love the watercolored stick pin tethering the stem of the rose at the bottom left corner of the paper in a trompe l’oeil sort of fashion

--to begin with

it is hard and smooth

It's the less structured

Antique Magic Lantern Slip Slide, My Own Blue Bell(e) celadon vase very folky feelingI think magic lantern "slip" slides are really fun a very simple early mechanical means of creating a changing image, with the black painted ground of the slide concealing (more of less) a second image that is revealed when the top pane of glass is pulled to the right. And I really love the bright blue bell in this one, which slides out to reveal a pretty blue belle! Closed: 7 3 8" x 4" x 7 16". Good condition, with a bit of paint loss, as documented,