Hand-carved Articulated Mannequin with Bright Eyes and Two Mended (Now Stiff!) Joints victorian brush as a happily unmarried woman

as a happily unmarried woman in her late 40's

immensely satisifying

framed in two slightly imperfect black ink squares and captioned with handwritten text on either side asking 'Lequel est mon portrait

a pretty cool thing

but just enhancing its sense of objecthood a bit

Hand-carved Articulated Mannequin with Bright Eyes and Two Mended (Now Stiff!) Joints victorian brush as a happily unmarried womanThis hand carved articulated mannequin has lived a life, with traces of what was surely a fuller head of hair on her pate, one bum knee, and one bum elbow too! But still she stands tall, and on her own (if stood in a stable position) and what a lot of time and care and skill went into making her. (And, to me, those huge eyes seem as if seeing straight into one's soul!) Stamped what looks like "Weber" on the back of her hips, which has not lead me