Homemade Antique Stereoview of White Horse Ledge / Echo Lake, NH antique still life and stands up straight and

and stands up straight  and sturdy on his base

The stem holding the top basket tilts just a bit

producing kitchenware and sanitary ware in addition to the hand-painted art ware pieces for which they are now best known

which had been attacked by plague

becoming at least as much  about their object hood as the image they portray

Homemade Antique Stereoview of White Horse Ledge / Echo Lake, NH antique still life and stands up straight andI love this double image formally, with perfectly round mound (White Horse Ledge, we know from a handwritten note on reverse, an 800 foot cliff in the White Mountains of New Hampshire) and its mirror reflection in the lake (aptly named Echo Lake) looking like the earth itself on the horizon. Times two. And then at right is what looks a bit like a person fishing at the edge of land, or like a small lean to sort of structure, its a bit hard to tell. To