Children with Coral Under Glass Dome, Victorian Cabinet Card antique ceramics in addition to several iterations

in addition to several iterations of W

with super long tongue and wonderful patterning for the scales

topped with a thick coat of varnish or shellac

10” l x 2” w x 2” d and in very good condition

Nice aging to the paint

Children with Coral Under Glass Dome, Victorian Cabinet Card antique ceramics in addition to several iterationsIt's the coral under the glass dome that drew me to this late 19th century cabinet card, stamped J. N Wilson, Savannah Georgia, but the more I look at it the more I love It for the body language of the children the way the boy rests his arm on the table and leans in, as if to assert his ownership over the display (and, it looks to me, his grand ambitions in life, too), while his sister, one assumes, seems to sort of shrink away though I like to think