(02-11-2016, 04:02 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
It is interesting that the dots here are clearly not part of the inside of the loge. Could they be a symbolic way of indicating a lace veil?
I suspect they are not really a depiction of a physical object at all, since if you look at the arm hollows collectively there's something funny going on with many of them. One possibility for these "dots above the rim" is that the illustrator deliberately did something that makes no sense, perhaps as a joke or maybe for some "philosophical" reason. Another possibility is that it was important that the dots be there for some symbolic purpose, though it's not clear why he didn't just move the rim up a bit higher and draw the dots underneath. Whatever the explanation is, it seems to have been intentional because the awkward way the arm is drawn suggests that the illustrator wanted to leave space for this particular configuration of the rim and the dots.