Young Woman with Mask, 19th C. Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame tasbletop especially among students

especially among students

I really love this tin--for the juicy white paint drip down one side but especially for sliding lid on the top

Cigarette Cards (2 5/8" x 1 1/2" ea) were adhered to brown paper

and was probably made as a weight of some sort (it resembles some mat weights and scroll weights

holding jewelry on the dresser or vanity

Young Woman with Mask, 19th C. Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame tasbletop especially among studentsThere seem to be a fair number of i18th and 19th c. images of young women holding masks, inspired I believe by the popularity of masquerade balls; whether this folk watercolor was based on a specific popular print I have not been able to discern, but it may well have been. Whatever the case, I take it on its own terms and think it's fabulous, with the big blue eyed, side cast gaze of this young woman seeming to sparkle with a coy mischievousness. I