"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier details this one with a lovely

this one with a lovely dark stain and slightly phallic silhouette

it is marked Erphilia

I've seen a fair number of vintage "sewing birds" around--handy things

and knowing that it came from the estate of a very prolific artist makes it easy to imagine that the trusty set of tools inside have lived a very active life

I assume early vintage condition

"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier details this one with a lovelyI might guess that this watercolor was done by the mother of this child, perhaps made for her husband, who perhaps was away, or for a friend without children, and I would think done with no small dose of irony. Who knows? Now though, on its own, the text in combination with image might be read in all sorts of ways, including perhaps as expressing the sentiments of the baby, sucking away on what I take as a pacifier. I'm pretty delighted by those two