Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 metallic carved out ears perfectly framing

carved out ears perfectly framing the long slope of a nose

final touches of white painted whiskers and ears

Mid-1950s I believe

this striking large black vase is unmarked

and especially about that white horse ethereally floating between earth and sky in front of that bushy tree

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 metallic carved out ears perfectly framingThis is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them are signed and dated at bottom, others like this one signed on back (Maggie, in this case), so they represent the work of a few different people, most likely young women, among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era. I love the fact that making these represented not just a