Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting the bottom of this basket

the bottom of this basket shows the museum accession number for it

and there is an iron hook near the front

How much fun it would be to wear this carved and painted wooden mask with this long

and am just completely in love with them as objects

especially down the front for marking the bodice and all around the base for marking the hemlines

Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting the bottom of this basketI love this watercolor, and the tramp frame, and think they make a happy marriage. (Forgive the glare in photos.) Santa (who happily looks more like dad as Santa than "Santa") was executed on orange construction paper mounted to green, dated Dec. 13 and signed AW at the bottom left. Fabulous beard, fabulous boots, fabulous decorated tree (which Santa appears to be hailing), and this curiously sparse arrangement of objects underneath the tree a tiny