Intense Blushing Boy in Shorts in High Chair, Antique Hand-tinted Tintype swan doorstop The polychrome colors remain super

The polychrome colors remain super saturated and bold - red

I am finding it hard to resist antique floral watercolors these days--perhaps in part for knowing that the loveliness of spring blooms exploding everywhere at the moment will soon be gone

and houses a carved ladder

7" x 6 3/8" x 3 3/8" tall at chimney (roof 2 1/2" tall

as if the parrot were crying

Intense Blushing Boy in Shorts in High Chair, Antique Hand-tinted Tintype swan doorstop The polychrome colors remain superIn his gaze, and in his posture, this boy seems to me to possess a fantastic intensity which I find quite gripping, and the image holds a sort of otherworldliness too, enhanced by the fact that his chair appears almost as if levitating! And the glow of his hand painted pink cheeks furthers a sense of some sort of possessed ness! Plus those wool shorts, and hand painted gold buttons running down the front of his dark shirt. I found this one together