Marvelous Small Portrait of Woman in Dutch Fresian "Ear Iron"Headdress, 19th Century Watercolor Portrait on Laid paper cutting To my eye quite a

To my eye quite a beautiful thing--a sculpture on its own

" "Honor is the reward of virtue

I like penny rugs as a thing

with this rotunda feeling like a long forgotten place

with an arrangement of old stone fruit

Marvelous Small Portrait of Woman in Dutch Fresian "Ear Iron"Headdress, 19th Century Watercolor Portrait on Laid paper cutting To my eye quite aLOVE. I believe this watercolor and its subject are Dutch, and believe she is wearing a traditional Fresian (of Friesland, in the northernmost part of Holland) "ear iron" headdress, consisting of a wide band of metal fitting around the back of the head with ornaments at the temples. The shape and style of the ornaments made of gold, silver or brass, and worn with a lace bonnet were indicative of a Fresian woman's status, their husband's or son's