Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box Charles rudy just a little gem of

just a little gem of a painting I think

which was done very well and really disappears

sturdily screwed on to the mother and/or to the base

I'd probably put a tiny hook on the back and hang it on the wall

He was businessman (Curtis & Marble Company) and one of the  foremost historic glass cup plate collectors in America (a genre of glass plates featuring historic portraits (busts)

Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box Charles rudy just a little gem ofI purchased this one from a dealer in Maine, who had a number of works that had come from the estate of Elizabeth Heredia Snyder Rees (1919 2011) not an artist I was familiar with, and much of her work not really my cup of tea, but I found and find this pretty wonderful, and clever, too: a pair of lovers rendered in modeling clay atop an old Cuban Romeo Y Julieta cigar box, with the box doing quadruple duty as a base, and a stand, and as inspiration