Serious Young Woman in Front of Linsey Woolsey Textile, Antique RPPC nesting boxes used for sprinkling cinnamon or

used for sprinkling cinnamon or sugar on muffins

It is marked Sterlized Japan on the opposite side of the handle

to whom the French seller of this print pointed me

Teppich was born in Germany in 1904

) I understand from the seller that this was found in a 1840's book in the attic of a very old estate--I love the image of that discovery

Serious Young Woman in Front of Linsey Woolsey Textile, Antique RPPC nesting boxes used for sprinkling cinnamon orThis is one of my new favorite photographic portraits ever, including for the fact that this young woman keeps reminding me of a young Chloe Sevigny, which makes me think of the subject here, in her white dress, white stockings, big bow, and unsmiling expression, as something of a style icon too. But the framing is also a big part of what makes it great, with a checkerboard patterned linsey woolsey weaving stretched behind her almost like an op art