Strange Antique Photo with Child in White handmade face pot 8 1/8" x 6 1/8"

8 1/8" x 6 1/8" framed

measuring 1 1/16" cubed

and also perhaps the contented look on his face

super sturdy structural shape

It measures 11 1/4" across and 2 5/8" tall

Strange Antique Photo with Child in White handmade face pot 8 1/8" x 6 1/8"I had not made the association when I purchased this photo, but many of you responded to it by suggesting it was a post mortem photo, with deceased child at center. An expert who deals in mourning and funerary antiques tells me that posing a deceased child in this manner would be exceedingly rare; rather, children in post mortem photos would be posed in a very reverent manner. In any case, this child's layers of all white, setting her (I assume) in