Antique Pantry Box with Unusual, Perfectly Fitted Lid in Most Beautiful Mustard Grain Painti animal love with the popular style mimicking

with the popular style mimicking carousel horses

consisting of over 100 adobe buildings is the namesake of the Mission San José district of Fremont

who were given the same format and the same (wonderfully unusual) watercolor palette to work with

and likely one of many once held together in a ruled notebook

Using his Bowie knife

Antique Pantry Box with Unusual, Perfectly Fitted Lid in Most Beautiful Mustard Grain Painti animal love with the popular style mimickingThe paint on this one made me swoon when I spotted it at one of my favorite shops just over the Vermont border last week photos do no real justice to the richness of color and surface. An unusual one in terms of form, too, in my experience with a recessed lip to the turned lid that fits inside the bentwood box perfectly snug and tight, with the lid lying perfectly flat. A beauty of a yellow underside too. SO pretty. Late 19th century or so. 6 1 8" in