Gold Leafed Early Miniature Painting on Laquered Papier Mache in Daguerrotype Frame alligator paint with this piercing dark blue

with this piercing dark blue eyes and straight line of a red mouth

Plus this perfect combo of silver and the best blue

but is forever kept from pulling out by a carved wooden arm that extends across just below the neck of the bottle

with one light spot at the tip of one side of the exterior egg and a crack in one half of the second to smallest egg

marked MBW USA on their bottoms

Gold Leafed Early Miniature Painting on Laquered Papier Mache in Daguerrotype Frame alligator paint with this piercing dark blueA curious thing, which I purchased from a seller who knew nothing about it, but found it at an old estate. I believe it is quite an old painting, early 19th century I would guess, executed on what appears to be a gold leafed, black laquered paper mch (such as that one finds antique snuff boxes made of) surface. I think the two layered gold toned frame, with glass, is likely a later addition, as the inner frame conceals a little of the the painting,