Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed bug jewelry Like this frog

Like this frog

Some loss of paint

but is also similar in manner to early American chalkware pieces I have found of horses and deer and cats

Very good I believe antique condition

Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed bug jewelry Like this frogI'm not the least bit religious, but I find myself more and more attracted to religious icons and artifacts of all sorts, in no small part I think due to the abundance of ornament so often present, even better when some of it is gold! Very similar in manner to a Victorian die cut and paper lace valentine, this I believe could technically be called a Canivet card, an art connected to small devotional images which had its origin in France in the 13th