SOLD Bespectaled Woman with Double Halo! Charming Victorian Wirework Frame with Miniature Photo drawing on bank stationary but looking more closely one

but looking more closely one sees it is bluer in the recesses and under and around the lip

painting especially

" "Delicacy of taste places much of our happiness in our own power

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and the juxtaposition of the two

SOLD Bespectaled Woman with Double Halo! Charming Victorian Wirework Frame with Miniature Photo drawing on bank stationary but looking more closely oneTo my eye a complete charmer of a an antique miniature portrait frame and all the more so for the photo found in it! Purchased the same week that Maggie Smith died, the woman (I think) in this portrait made me think a bit of her, looking none too easy to please! I also like the sort of halo of radial lines surrounding her head, doubled by the hand painted wreath of flowers granted her by the frame. Great together, but the frame, really a sweet one,