SOLD Unusual Antique Painted Tinwork Frame with Continental Watercolor Drawing antique Indonesian puppet Very early 20th century

Very early 20th century

loving carved

was made after a famous print c

but what a fantastic image I think

The hand-done wire construction reads like a line drawing in space

SOLD Unusual Antique Painted Tinwork Frame with Continental Watercolor Drawing antique Indonesian puppet Very early 20th centuryI found this in Maine that is certainly not where it came from, but the origins of the finely crafted, painted antique tinwork frame are a bit of a mystery to me. There are some spectacular Spanish Colonial tinwork frames that it feels a bit akin to, but my guess is that it is Continental European. Found in it is a fine antique watercolor, also Continental I believe, which has clearly lived in the frame for a long time and I think may date to the 18th