Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face boy scout 3 11/16" x 2 11/16

3 11/16" x 2 11/16

It measures 8 1/2" tall x 7" wide

This crazy thing--I'm in love with it

Manufacturing textiles for sale was a significant source of income for the religious community

All happy things

Lovely, Delicately Carved Nude on Panel with Hidden Face boy scout 3 11/16" x 2 11/16One of my favorite July Brimfield finds, from a dealer who always has wonderful and unusual things. (I also bought a ship in a "bottle" with the bottle actually a hollowed out lightbulb.) Quite a delicately carved nude, and I really love the ambiguity of it I believe she is actually meant to be lying down, as if her head resting on a pillow (and with her right breast pulled by gravity in that direction, but then I think the carver was quite attached