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Small oval female portrait in quillwork decorated shadow box. The diorama with central handcolored female angel figure with animals, flanked by quilled vase and flower motif, with a border of quilled flowers, "Joanna Cox" handwritten on reverse.
cut-paper work
quillwork
paperwork (crafts)
Quillwork
Quillwork
"Joanna Cox" (handwritten)
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
13 x 15 1/2 x 2 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.2648
Possibly Italy
Probably
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