Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles cultivator or one could

or one could

I take this guy for a boxer in his red shorts with green waist band and brown gloved hands—and one can dance him around like a butterfly from the dowel in his back

I really really really love pinprick decorated watercolors

and it appears that Mickey paired with the yellow tractor is pretty rare

but surely this bowl was once a basket--there is a one remaining piece of the handle on the interior of one side

Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles cultivator or one couldA friend and fellow antiques dealer was expressing to me just the other day his enamourment with smoke decorated objects; I must admit I'd never paid super close attention, but then came across this tin and I must say I'm smitten. Smoke decorating, or smoke painting, became popular in the late 18th century and was used well into the 19th, done by manipulating a sooty candle over the surface of a newly painted object, still wet, to produce various