Shepherdesses with Lamb, Old Reverse Glass Folk Art Painting placido disk This one belonged James Gifford

This one belonged James Gifford and dates to 1804

I've found a few other carved antler mushrooms

often really wonderful little works of art and time capsules too

a pointy top

where she designed bowls

Shepherdesses with Lamb, Old Reverse Glass Folk Art Painting placido disk This one belonged James GiffordMaybe the little girl in this super folky reverse glass painting is meant to be Little Bo Peep, or maybe Mary with her little lamb, but as opposed to those lost girls, this one has a mother at her side (and with a cross around her neck), so who knows? In any event, pretty fabulous I think, from their faces and ringlets to this great blue starry sky. I'm not entirely sure of its age or origins it seems perhaps Eastern European to me, and I would think