Young Woman in Blue, Antique Full Plate Folk Art Painted Tintype mid-century danish ceramic trays candlesticks

trays candlesticks

and maybe 1930-40s

showing some wear (amplified in photos) but still looking very sharp

1830s-40s I believe)

through his feet don't clap hard on his platform

Young Woman in Blue, Antique Full Plate Folk Art Painted Tintype mid-century danish ceramic trays candlesticksI've really fallen in love with antique hand painted full plate tintype portraits, and this one a bit bolder and more striking in person has a wonderful intensity and surrealness about it, with the matte gray painting around this young woman amplifying the elongated shape of her head and hair, making her look almost as if in the process of transforming into a different sort of creature (I keep thinking of a gazelle!) With wonderfully delicate dots of