Old Foil Decorated Folk Art St. Elizabeth Icon, Under Glass with Wooden Back pastel vase animated with this great pencil

animated with this great pencil drawn face: my favorite sort of starry eyes

box about 7 7/8" x 7 7/8" x 1 3/8"

Every sort of bud looks lovely in it

where the slingshot is a traditional handicraft

On the reverse is a note that the subject was/is believed to the be "James Homestead Molton-Boro" which I believe refers to Homestead of James French (1845-1919)

Old Foil Decorated Folk Art St. Elizabeth Icon, Under Glass with Wooden Back pastel vase animated with this great pencilA very folky old St. Elizabeth icon, with cutout engraving decorated with collaged bits of gold, copper, and blue foil, all housed under glass and backed with wood. I'm not entirely sure what that dense cluster of gold foil at the feet of Elizebeth is obscuring, but looks like divine flames licking her feet to me! And perhaps the curious shape of the whole thing is meant to evoke the holy trinity (sort of in the form of a triquetra?) I believe this