Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets antique ship in a bottle 8 1/8" l x 1

8 1/8" l x 1 1/4" widest diameter and in excellent condition

but I found setting it on this stool

The neck of the rabbit was left un-sewn at the front so as to cover the neck of the bottle

Love from Florrie

I believe this dates to the 1st half of the 19th century

Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets antique ship in a bottle 8 1/8" l x 1A very curious one, feeling to me like an early film still very striking, but what is going on here? Perhaps the woman in the foreground (what a face!) is in fact on ice skates, which would explain her strange posture, or perhaps she is hiding something or someone behind her skirt? (Is there a child there, bent over, in black too?) And what is the woman behind her with raised arm as if about to chop the air actually doing? I don't know, but in their