Beautiful Old Linen Covered Tamborine with Beveled Glass Mirror doll staircase One chimney is loose in

One chimney is loose in its mount and can be pulled off but easily repositioned and will stay there fine and there a missing nail at one back corner of the roof

perhaps textiles most of all--carrying the presence of time and labor and the hand so intimately across centuries--I was struck by the straight-ahead

and a lot of fun

which certainly helps

) With mirrors at the center of the central checkerboard of flowers

Beautiful Old Linen Covered Tamborine with Beveled Glass Mirror doll staircase One chimney is loose inI've got a special weakness for old tambourines, finding them quite beautiful objects formally, and also for knowing they've lived long lives of being held and shaken really among the most immediate of instruments. I would guess this beautiful linen covered one lived a good life before becoming the frame for a bevelled mirror but the mirror itself has clearly been there for a good long time, too. I imagine the transformation occurred after the drum