masked ball

I said I would show this to Little Britches as a wonderful doll she recently made reminds me of it. But I thought perhaps more people would like to take a look. The photo isn't great, as we had to take it through glass. It always gives me a shiver. The head above is on a hinge of course, so it snaps down to cover the old woman's face. Thoroughly ageist, sexist and nasty. But it has beauty too. It's one of the bizarre and beautiful things in our Museum of Decorative Art here in Prague. I will try to post some more in the next weeks.