Victorian Christmas Angel Lights Tree Greeting Card Cherub

The background of evergreen branches framing everything else is almost a distraction from the cherub — wings out, expression smugly serene — that has apparently decided the best way to spend eternity is lighting open-flame candles directly onto dry tree branches using what appears to be a wand, a safety protocol that explains a lot about 19th-century house fire statistics. Below this celestial arsonist, a doll and a toy horse sit on a plate alongside what look like apples and cookies, because nothing says 'blessed holiday season' like leaving your children's toys next to the snack spread. The cherub's knowing half-smile as it touches flame to branch reads less 'heavenly messenger' and more 'I have done this before and I will do it again.'