Old Foil Decorated Folk Art St. Elizabeth Icon, Under Glass with Wooden Back measuring cup including 58 full page drawings/paintings

including 58 full page drawings/paintings

from Dingley Press of Freeport Maine

leaning somewhat forward when on all fours though he will stand that way

The mirror itself is in good shape too

(Resonant in the literal sense also

Old Foil Decorated Folk Art St. Elizabeth Icon, Under Glass with Wooden Back measuring cup including 58 full page drawings/paintingsA very folky old St. Elizabeth icon, with cutout engraving decorated with collaged bits of gold, copper, and blue foil, all housed under glass and backed with wood. I'm not entirely sure what that dense cluster of gold foil at the feet of Elizebeth is obscuring, but looks like divine flames licking her feet to me! And perhaps the curious shape of the whole thing is meant to evoke the holy trinity (sort of in the form of a triquetra?) I believe this