Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed heirloom The brass quintessentially art nouveau

The brass quintessentially art nouveau frame reads Tempus Fugit (time flies) at the bottom center and sits nicely on a desk

12 x 4“ x 1/2” painted on plywood

” And at the end a morning hymn and two pages of instruction about never putting anything off for tomorrow that one can do right now

A bit of surface peeling along the far left edge of the Blériot image

which included a large collection of antique santos carvings

Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed heirloom The brass quintessentially art nouveauDoesn't get much moodier than this one, feeling almost like a post mortem of these two dolls! Early photographs of girls with their dolls are not too hard to come by, but much rarer to find portraits of dolls alone, and here a pair, both with painted porcelain heads and porcelain arms, but slightly different from one another (I'd call the one at left the older sister!) And with what looks like a doll bed behind them, which they are leaning up against.