Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant 1980s vase Quite a labor of love

Quite a labor of love it was for someone to make these--I've had a few larger handmade tin architectures

much aged and rusty but nut shedding

And then handy advice toward the end

I really love the look of these

Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant 1980s vase Quite a labor of loveI'm not altogether certain how to untangle this one, but it appears to me to be a tintype photo of an earlier watercolor, I presume a portrait miniature but perhaps it is a tintype of a daguerreotype of a painting (??) And I love the mystery and ambiguity of it in many respects; while sharing qualities of post mortem daguerreotypes, where infants were carefully laid out in a similar manner here on what looks like a chaise, with a curtain draped behind