Beautiful 19th C. Folk Art Painted Miniature Dome Top Chest mid-century drawing really a nice example

really a nice example

It's also very nice  how much the "leve" looks like "love

as the larger penguin is most definitely giving the side-eye to the shorter

) exit their orbits

A quick searched reveals that Yergason went on to fight in the  Civil War

Beautiful 19th C. Folk Art Painted Miniature Dome Top Chest mid-century drawing really a nice exampleSo lovely and special feeling, I believe this miniature folk art painted dome top chest is Northern European, and I'd guess German, as to me the painted houses on it remind me very much of early German Erzgebirge ones. (A similar one, sold at Skinner for $300+, was attributed as Northern European.) Wonderfully painted on every side, with the topiary esque green trees against white with blue sky above and yellow ground below especially doing it for me.