Lush Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Urn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame two men making one think of Timothy

making one think of Timothy Chalamet poised for a period drama

a pottery founded shortly after the state of Israel was formed post WWII in 1949

As far as letters go

I just love everything about this portrait (those huge blue eyes

and a pronounced vertical warp visible on the exterior

Lush Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Urn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame two men making one think of TimothyOccasionally I'll see a Victorian dried flower composition with a cut paper element, but I don't believe I've ever seen a sea moss picture like this before, with that black paper urn evoking a theorem painting stencil as well as a cut paper silhouette portrait, and I think locating it c. 1850s or so. I love sea moss pressings of all sorts (including for the fact that sea moss gathering represented an acceptable way for young women to get out in nature