Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed painted stone fruit which became classics of French

which became classics of French literature

Much aged but I think all the better for it

this is a very old

including for the fact that it looks quite a bit like our gentle

Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed painted stone fruit which became classics of FrenchI'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