Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs miniature wooden tools though some scholars view them

though some scholars view them as lacrimarium (tear vials--such a wonderful image) that were to be buried with the deceased

Hand-thrown

but it can be done if approached correctly

Sampler measures 11 1/8" x 9 3/4"

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Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs miniature wooden tools though some scholars view themA curious one, at least to me, which I understand from the seller would have been made for an Italian opera theatre, portraying a bit of the action and hung outside the theater as signage of sorts. It seems to me that the painting which has some of the feel (and drama!) of an ex voto retablo to me, and also a telenovela! was painted on a very old wooden panel, salvaged from something else, in the top corners of which (my favorite thing, best seen in