Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed bug jewelry though we're also reminded of

though we're also reminded of the very immediate activist ambitions of that work

unfolding across 360 degrees

Sculpturally carved and thick enough to stand up on its own

with a great warm presence that one feels accrued as it was passed along from one generation to the next to the next

Like this frog

Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed bug jewelry though we're also reminded ofI'm not the least bit religious, but I find myself more and more attracted to religious icons and artifacts of all sorts, in no small part I think due to the abundance of ornament so often present, even better when some of it is gold! Very similar in manner to a Victorian die cut and paper lace valentine, this I believe could technically be called a Canivet card, an art connected to small devotional images which had its origin in France in the 13th