Shepherdesses with Lamb, Old Reverse Glass Folk Art Painting eye tool There are a few small

There are a few small scratches to the surface of the glass on the saucer

used to dye the lacquer (while the other colors have sometimes been used

I think it is absolutely stunning

as is the lid on the very top

but instead in the heel

Shepherdesses with Lamb, Old Reverse Glass Folk Art Painting eye tool There are a few smallMaybe the little girl in this super folky reverse glass painting is meant to be Little Bo Peep, or maybe Mary with her little lamb, but as opposed to those lost girls, this one has a mother at her side (and with a cross around her neck), so who knows? In any event, pretty fabulous I think, from their faces and ringlets to this great blue starry sky. I'm not entirely sure of its age or origins it seems perhaps Eastern European to me, and I would think