Pencil Drawing of Marthe in Profile on French Furniture Shop Card Center Ohio I'm certain that this wonderful

I'm certain that this wonderful gilded cast bronze rabbit (I believe a rabbit

This dark green painted bentwood box features finely rendered flying gold-painted cranes or herons amid curling lines evocative of clouds or water

as they are just so lovely

and especially about that white horse ethereally floating between earth and sky in front of that bushy tree

Pencil Drawing of Marthe in Profile on French Furniture Shop Card Center Ohio I'm certain that this wonderfulI think this drawing of pretty, intense young Marthe has so much life in it I can just feel her presence (and the tightness of her collar!) across the distance of a century plus. From the ears to the bow in her hair to the stitching across the front of her dress and the way the fabric falls below it, it's terrifically vivid and I think just terrific. Late 19th or very early 20th century and drawn on the reverse of a postcard sized Parisian