19th Century Folk Art Ink Portrait of Soulful Looking Woman with Rose antique marbles but rarer in my experience

but rarer in my experience to find one carved of wood

all but the birds stand on their own

all sorts of wonderful little doodles and flourishes

but in very good structural condition with no cracks or notable chips

(There is an example in the Cooper Hewitt's collection dated 1850 that is very similar in manner

19th Century Folk Art Ink Portrait of Soulful Looking Woman with Rose antique marbles but rarer in my experienceMy photos do this lovely and soulful woman no real justice; the pink of her lips and rose, and the blue black of her irises, and the olive green of the rose's leaves don't come across so well and then also is the fact that her eyes seem to follow one around the room! I love everything about her, from her expression that seems a complex mix of of wise and proud and sorrowfully resigned, down to the all of those tiny dots and dashes giving form to her