Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings is just the sort of

is just the sort of thing I am forever opening antique books in hopes of finding--but never do

and I think in ink and I might guess crayon

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

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

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Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings is just the sort ofI 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