Marvelous Small Portrait of Woman in Dutch Fresian "Ear Iron"Headdress, 19th Century Watercolor Portrait on Laid paper cutting with an arrangement of old

with an arrangement of old stone fruit

" "Honor is the reward of virtue

Just a simple one

With terrific marked eyes and a slit for the mouth

To my eye quite a beautiful thing--a sculpture on its own

Marvelous Small Portrait of Woman in Dutch Fresian "Ear Iron"Headdress, 19th Century Watercolor Portrait on Laid paper cutting with an arrangement of oldLOVE. I believe this watercolor and its subject are Dutch, and believe she is wearing a traditional Fresian (of Friesland, in the northernmost part of Holland) "ear iron" headdress, consisting of a wide band of metal fitting around the back of the head with ornaments at the temples. The shape and style of the ornaments made of gold, silver or brass, and worn with a lace bonnet were indicative of a Fresian woman's status, their husband's or son's