Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed inuit stone carving With a few seemingly simple

With a few seemingly simple gestures

I find pretty moving and beautiful

but structurally in great shape

One can never have enough pretty small plates -- they're great for cocktail parties

Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed inuit stone carving With a few seemingly simpleThis one moves me on all sorts of levels, including for the dress's transformation into a potent uniform via the single red cross hand stitched onto the white band on one sleeve, and for the staining and fading to the beautiful blue of the linen, making it feel as if if its wearer did plenty of caretaking. And then its careful laying out onto a quilted ground for framing, with the left sleeve folded under as if in perpetual motion. Early 1900s WWI era