Curious 19th Century Papered Box with Interior Lion Engraving and Signed Japanese Paper Underside phoenix brush with wear around the edges

with wear around the edges

very early Victorian in sensibility

while all the boys look on

based I believe of the earliest of Gilbert Stuart's Washington portraits: the Gibbs-Channing-Avery portrait

Just the perfect mix of rustic and refined

Curious 19th Century Papered Box with Interior Lion Engraving and Signed Japanese Paper Underside phoenix brush with wear around the edgesYou are surely smarter than I am and can identify the building at the center of the lid on this antique papered box; looks a bit like the U. S. Capital building, but not quite. I find it a lovely thing whatever the case, made all the better for the blue ink lion engraving adhered to the underside of the lid, and what I believe is Japanese woodblock printed paper on the bottom, signed in red ink characters. And then just a fragment of text along one