Ernest Looking Young Woman in Profile, Full Plate Antique Tintype 1937 This beautiful sculptural curiosity is

This beautiful sculptural curiosity is a Japanese wood and papier mache fragment--half of a rib cage--from what I presume was a full body model of a human skeleton

It was purchased from the estate of an architect and architectural historian in Kansas City

I think it would also be striking in a super minimal environment

I'll never get over the beauty of inky black painted lettering against a field of creamy white paint

I'd be pretty tempted to cut a few of these pages out and frame them

Ernest Looking Young Woman in Profile, Full Plate Antique Tintype 1937 This beautiful sculptural curiosity isIt's not very often I come across a full plate tintype where the subject was posed in profile. And I find this quite a striking portrait, which feels, too, quite contemporary in its spareness. And the combination of her crisp white collar and the loose sleeves her dress evoke a judge in robe for me and of course the Supreme Court is on my mind! With a very earnest looking face and seeming almost to be biting her lower lip as if deliberating! To my