antique Victorian seashell folk art souvenir beach resort child fishing 1900s

Description

Here is an antique Victorian folk art sculpture made of seashells and plaster, painted, with a little porcelain boy fishing by the waterside.  It measures 8" wide and 6" tall.  Remnants of a decal to interior shell unreadable, would have had the name of the beach resort where this was purchased.  Little boy holds a wooden toothpick (replaced) that would originally have held a string as a fishing line.  Very artfully done.  Interior plaster is sculpted like waves and hand-painted.  Beautiful shell work.  Excellent condition, some loss to paint only.