Small oval female portrait in quillwork decorated shadow box. The diorama with cental handcolored female figure and a serpent, with quilled bird and squirrel below, two black paper swags in the background, inside a black painted wooden box with a frame faced wtih glass.
cut-paper work
quillwork
wood (plant material)
paperwork (crafts)
paint (coating)
Quillwork
Quillwork
Cox, Joanna
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
13 3/8 x 16 1/4 x 3 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.2644
Possibly Italy
Probably
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