PAINTING / PRINT ON SATIN: LITTLE BO PEEP

Relief painting or print on black satin, 19" x 15 3/4" (image), 19 3/8" x 16 1/8" (satin backing to where it is folded under), 24 1/4" X 18" (to the edges of the satin backing, unfolded), the painting in low relief on a finely encrusted ground, the latticework background and the oval framing device in relief as well, the design perhaps unique but more likely the product of a multiple process, perhaps one employing stencils. The satin backing is fragile along the foldlines (there as a result of a former framing), which bear numerous short splits not visible in our photographs. We can detect no losses to the composition, even under magnification, though there is a 1/2" x 1/8" rubbed spot to the framing roundel's outermost loop (lower right corner). Unmatted, unframed. Probably, 1920s or 1930s.