Compass Rose Encircled in Red Rings, Sublime Hand-painted Early 19th Century Snuff Box antique sunderland with this wonderful leaping Dutch

with this wonderful leaping Dutch boy in the perfect blue and orange outfit

and most of all full of the never-ending (and very early Victorian) drive to make momentos of every sort lest one be forgotten

I really love how the smaller front wheels tip this dog forward

who almost seems as if lifted in from another scene entirely

but also really the perfect scale for holding garden gloves and clippers etc

Compass Rose Encircled in Red Rings, Sublime Hand-painted Early 19th Century Snuff Box antique sunderland with this wonderful leaping DutchAnother object that for me is pure perfection. The color, the paint, the patina, and what better than a compass rose at the center of a snuff box to carry around in one's pocket as one navigates through the world? Sublime, right down to the small white dots midway between each point of the star, and with those red rings evincing a target, as if this were the north star, to keep forever in one's sights. 2 15 16" d x 11 16" t. Just gorgeous paint,