Strange Antique Photo with Child in White handmade face pot (I keep thinking of Lichtenstein's

(I keep thinking of Lichtenstein's ben-day dots when I look at them

but overall good condition with no loss of stitching and looks great

8 7/8" x 6 5/8"

The drawings were cut out and mounted to the black paper of old photo album

I've had one other old toy mold in this shop similar in construction to this pig--which I just found along with what looks to be a tweety bird

Strange Antique Photo with Child in White handmade face pot (I keep thinking of Lichtenstein'sI 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