Handmade Ink and Watercolor French Courtiers and Flower Sellers Paper Dolls dish set keeping one's pennies and quarters

keeping one's pennies and quarters super secure

The girl is 5" tall and the boy is 4 3/4"

eye holes and heel

I'd certainly love to see it inspire a whole new creation

which left these wonderful faint shadow forms

Handmade Ink and Watercolor French Courtiers and Flower Sellers Paper Dolls dish set keeping one's pennies and quartersI take these hand drawn and watercolored paper dolls as representing French courtiers and flower sellers from the era of Louis XIV or so, though I am not entirely sure when they were made and whether a specific purpose; the level of execution is rather above and beyond that of paper dolls made by or for a child to play with! Perhaps they were background characters in an elaborate puppet show? Or made as part of a maquette for an opera set design? In