Strange Antique Photo with Child in White handmade face pot 8 1/8" x 6 1/8"

8 1/8" x 6 1/8" framed

(I keep thinking of Lichtenstein's ben-day dots when I look at them

but overall good condition with no loss of stitching and looks great

8 7/8" x 6 5/8"

super sturdy structural shape

Strange Antique Photo with Child in White handmade face pot 8 1/8" x 6 1/8"I had not made the association when I purchased this photo, but many of you responded to it by suggesting it was a post mortem photo, with deceased child at center. An expert who deals in mourning and funerary antiques tells me that posing a deceased child in this manner would be exceedingly rare; rather, children in post mortem photos would be posed in a very reverent manner. In any case, this child's layers of all white, setting her (I assume) in