Vintage Easter Greeting Card with Chicks, Eggs & Lilies

'A Joyful Easter' reads the ornate multi-colored lettering in lavender, red, and gold — yet the card depicts two fluffy yellow chicks perched inside a wicker basket alongside a nest of unhatched eggs, which is either a heartwarming family portrait or the most psychologically loaded still life in holiday card history. The chicks stare outward with the vacant intensity of witnesses to something they cannot unsee, flanked by white Easter lilies that bloom with the solemn grandeur of a funeral arrangement. The whole scene is framed inside a gold oval with a red border, because apparently the designer believed that entombing baby birds and their potential siblings in a decorative coffin shape was exactly how to convey 'Joyful Easter,' cheerfully dressing up what is essentially a tableau about the circle of life in its most confrontational form.