Antique Painted Doll Eyes Mounted on Stand! poppy The hand-painted details are really

The hand-painted details are really wonderful

The bottom is pretty terrific too

I find this bowl about as beautiful as it gets

I found this wonderful box at an estate sale in MA in a modest house packed to the gills with a long lifetime's accumulation

where he continues to have a studio

Antique Painted Doll Eyes Mounted on Stand! poppy The hand-painted details are reallyI'm guessing these doll eyes came from a prized doll that had great sentimental value to the person or parent of the person who managed to have them removed from the doll and mounted on this little stand, which I imagine was custom made for the purpose! It appears that the eyes are made of metal, painted, by hand I believe, and the armature on which they are mounted looks to be copper. The bottom end of the mount has been bent inside of a steel U