Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman luminous sterling silver & pewter using

sterling silver & pewter using the lost wax process

The slide top is a bit clunky but works fine and holds snugly closed

The vase features a wonderfully earthy

as there is a hole that runs through the handle near the end through which a string or wire could pass

Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman luminous sterling silver & pewter usingI love the ambiguity of this image, which I believe is a CDV that was scallop cut along the bottom before being mounted to the card, c. 1865. What is interesting to me about it is how the quality of the image to begin with combined with its aging over time make it feel very close to to a cut paper silhouette, and also almost as if it were a photograph of a statue, though details like the eyelashes and locks of hair surely point the former. Ultimately