Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings but no notable tears or

but no notable tears or major stains

but since it was already apart I thought I'd list my favorite

slide the latch to open the interior compartment

forecasting the future in not one but six languages as well as through fabulously dramatic images

I think it's terrific hung on the wall just as it is

Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings but no notable tears orI do have a weakness for boxes, but even more so a weakness for glorious paint, and no way could I look at the painted decoration on this box and not need to have it near me, for a little while or forever! How joyful those stripes and curlicues like trains of smoke running up the sides against that gorgeous bittersweet ground, and then these diamond shaped fields of white dots on the slide lid, like abstracted clouds, and also feeling kin to early