Antique Pantry Box with Unusual, Perfectly Fitted Lid in Most Beautiful Mustard Grain Painti plumb line The hinged lid opens easily

The hinged lid opens easily and sits flush

or perhaps near one's fishing gear as inspiration

Whether it was some damage to the painting on the box lid or simply the want to further decorate it I do not know

I would guess artist made

including as one imagines how different things might be had things gone the other way

Antique Pantry Box with Unusual, Perfectly Fitted Lid in Most Beautiful Mustard Grain Painti plumb line The hinged lid opens easilyThe paint on this one made me swoon when I spotted it at one of my favorite shops just over the Vermont border last week photos do no real justice to the richness of color and surface. An unusual one in terms of form, too, in my experience with a recessed lip to the turned lid that fits inside the bentwood box perfectly snug and tight, with the lid lying perfectly flat. A beauty of a yellow underside too. SO pretty. Late 19th century or so. 6 1 8" in