Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint patterned and the specifics so great

and the specifics so great

all punched through with tiny wooden posts

Standing on three great little legs

in thinking about the history and future of factory labor in this country

3" long x 3 1/8" tall x 1/2" wide

Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint patterned and the specifics so greatI do have a weakness for boxes, but even more so a weakness for glorious paint, and no way could I look at the painted decoration on this box and not need to have it near me, for a little while or forever! How joyful those stripes and curlicues like trains of smoke running up the sides against that gorgeous bittersweet ground, and then these diamond shaped fields of white dots on the slide lid, like abstracted clouds, and also feeling kin to early