Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant 1980s vase 1868–1871)

1868–1871)

one chip to to the glaze on the lip

much aged and rusty but nut shedding

And then handy advice toward the end

Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant 1980s vase 1868–1871)I'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