Handmade Ink and Watercolor French Courtiers and Flower Sellers Paper Dolls taxco silver overlay bottle I love the long handle

I love the long handle of this old wooden spoon or ladle

and minor bends to the bottom corners

Sepia toned ink text is a bit lighter on some pages and darker on others but all completely readable and in very good condition

Not a lot in the way of details--a carved triangle for a nose

11" corner to corner

Handmade Ink and Watercolor French Courtiers and Flower Sellers Paper Dolls taxco silver overlay bottle I love the long handleI take these hand drawn and watercolored paper dolls as representing French courtiers and flower sellers from the era of Louis XIV or so, though I am not entirely sure when they were made and whether a specific purpose; the level of execution is rather above and beyond that of paper dolls made by or for a child to play with! Perhaps they were background characters in an elaborate puppet show? Or made as part of a maquette for an opera set design? In