19th C. Folk Art Painted Full Plate Tintype of Stern Looking Couple with Bible (in Large Hand!) modernist planter for a truly decadent huge

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This carved stone head distills much of what I love about Inuit art--through a spareness of means this face manages to feel resolute as well as vulnerable

really makes them feel rather holy--more like alms boxes than coin banks

with all little bits and pieces firmly attached

Lots of use left in it

19th C. Folk Art Painted Full Plate Tintype of Stern Looking Couple with Bible (in Large Hand!) modernist planter for a truly decadent hugeI've been eyeing antique painted tintypes like this one lately which I think have a wonderfully surreal sort of strangeness to them so was very happy to find this one at an estate near me this week. A very nice example too, I think, strange feeling indeed, between his hair and beard and her large hands not feeling quite of her body. With what I take for a bible in her hand, painted red and certainly they look like a devout pair! Nice gold painted