Heartbreaking "No One To Love" Antique Ink Drawing painting on tin with fancy ash splint "porcupine"

with fancy ash splint "porcupine" curls all around the sides of the basket and lid

though there are a fair number of small gilded cast bronze animals out there-- Japanese and Chinese

and pretty handy too

Box measures 6 1/2" long x 2 1/4 wide and deep

and Vassar College Museum

Heartbreaking "No One To Love" Antique Ink Drawing painting on tin with fancy ash splint "porcupine"This breaks my heart, but I love it so much and really in significant part for exactly that reason. In the text at the bottom, its maker misspelled "thee" as "the", but I've figured out it reads: I can not give the(e) up, with all thy faults I love the(e) still." And on the reverse: "No one to love." And then this poor fellow, flowers in hand, standing at the doorstep of the one he loves, who does not seem especially eager to open the door and let him