"Toilet of Girl" Antique Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slide with Seaweed Effect pretty vase and shows some old pink-red

and shows some old pink-red paint

iconic design objects

I really really love the how the face on this carving is not at all what one might expect based on the rest of her

just perfectly imperfect

With a little research and a few stabs trying to decipher the signature on the underside

"Toilet of Girl" Antique Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slide with Seaweed Effect pretty vase and shows some old pink-redSuch a curious one on numerous levels. First is the strange image itself, titled "toilet of girl" on the bottom short edge of the slide, in which this very classical looking beauty is being attended to by another beautiful young woman, who towers over her as if from another world and, honestly, appears as much as anything as if she might be diligently grooming the other of lice! And then, I believe product of a reaction that occurred over time (I have