This small vanity figure had been bought on a trip to Paris, but since then lost its head after falling off the mantle piece.

Always staring in the mirror does you no good.

Peter had bought it for his wife, but as it turned out, luckily for me, she actually likes skulls much better, so why he hadn’t bought something with the grim reaper instead I don’t know. At that point, however, I didn’t know of her preference for caputs, but a vanity loosing her head anyway suggested itself into a vanitas with a dead head. I added a small, real mirror so that she could continue looking at herself looking at herself. Whoever said Death is a man anyway, and old to boot? What proof do we have for that?

Who is looking at who?

Object no. 31