Woman with Starry Shawl, Man on Bended Knee in Motion, Evocative Antique Photograph somerset Soldier: 7 1/8" x 3

Soldier: 7 1/8" x 3 1/2"

with lush cobalt blue hand-painted ginkgo leaf design over white glaze

first in large then in smaller capitals

I might guess this was was painted along the coast on the Black Sea

the blue of his shirt really is Yves Klein blue--like pure powdered pigment--and the green of his pants really does almost glow

Woman with Starry Shawl, Man on Bended Knee in Motion, Evocative Antique Photograph somerset Soldier: 7 1/8" x 3Beautifully strange and evocative, feeling a bit in between worlds and is it perhaps a cemetery they are standing kneeling in, in front of a mausoleum? He's got on an apron, or something similar wrapped around his waist, as if ready to serve her or ask her to marry him! He with two sets of hands, captured in a blur of motion, as was his head, which seems to fold into space. And she, in her marvelous outfit, captured in soft focus too. This has a