Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant 1980s vase and the rapa species name

and the rapa species name won out (which also includes Bok Choy

pipe stem in order to put it to use

and certainly they provide a history lesson relative to the appearance of world flags at the end of the 19th century and colonies held at that time

one chip to to the glaze on the lip

Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant 1980s vase and the rapa species nameI'm not altogether certain how to untangle this one, but it appears to me to be a tintype photo of an earlier watercolor, I presume a portrait miniature but perhaps it is a tintype of a daguerreotype of a painting (??) And I love the mystery and ambiguity of it in many respects; while sharing qualities of post mortem daguerreotypes, where infants were carefully laid out in a similar manner here on what looks like a chaise, with a curtain draped behind