Marvelous Antique Watercolor of Two Peruvian "Tapada Limeña" Veiled Women with One Eye Exposed chatelaine comb has clearly been much used

has clearly been much used and loved

it seems the subject is one Epitacio Allala

There are steel pins at top front and back (visible when one opens the lid) that when pressed open and close the front and back doors

representing three different sizes with various degrees of fineness

Perhaps this one was underwater

Marvelous Antique Watercolor of Two Peruvian "Tapada Limeña" Veiled Women with One Eye Exposed chatelaine comb has clearly been much usedThis watercolor wins the week for me, on a week when there are a number of things I am deeply in love with! So beautifully done (detail photos show how finely painted that radiant orange skirt, for example) and so mysterious feeling, with the empty, spare walled plaza giving me a de Chirico sort of mood. With a little research into the style of their veils, I've learned that these women are surely Peruvian tapada limea (meaning the covered one from