Ceiling Hung Christmas Tree! Antique Snapshot Photo file with a surface that invites

with a surface that invites all sorts of imaginings of all of the outfits born atop it

with some light rusting

but could swing  Scandanavian with some winter berries or a spring tulip or two

which is signed on the bottom

perfect in combination with the red of his cloak and yellow of the lion

Ceiling Hung Christmas Tree! Antique Snapshot Photo file with a surface that invitesI hadn't realized that ceiling hung Christmas trees had become a thing again when I found this old photo; I guess they have but this photo captures a late 19th early 20th c. iteration of the phenomenon, rare and fun to see! It is speculated that the practice may have originally related to the representation of the Holy Trinity, but it seems to have become especially popular as a space saving device! Quite a wonderfully decorated tree here, with paper