Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese old carving stop forever my hasty rattling

stop forever my hasty rattling pen

17 1/2" w x 18" t and in very good condition

I'm not entirely sure if the beetle itself was perfect to begin with

which it attacheds to simply via a carved bone peg

Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese old carving stop forever my hasty rattlingTo my sensibilities a completely perfect snapshot, capturing a specific fleeting moment but also totally transcendent. And between those blacks and whites and grays, the geometries of doors and frames and horizontals beams, and the outwardly arching wings and inwardly arching praying hands, it really could not be formally and compositionally better. And both like a vision and a film still. Handwriting in what I believe is Portuguese on reverse, but I