Victorian Santa Christmas Greeting Card with Red Poinsettias

Santa's disembodied head seems to have accepted its fate as a decorative object, floating in a white oval like a holiday cameo locket from your most intense aunt with the placid dignity of someone who understands he's no longer in the gift-giving business. Ringed by aggressively red poinsettias and nested inside a gold oval frame, he reads less 'jolly gift-giver' and more 'patron saint enshrined in a reliquary.' The Art Nouveau gold filigree snaking up the right side suggests the card itself is slowly being consumed by gilded vines — which, honestly, is the most on-brand Victorian outcome imaginable. 'A Merry Christmas,' it insists, in gold and red lettering, while presenting Santa as a relic to be venerated rather than a man with a sleigh and a to-do list.