SOLD Henrietta Work's Very Wonderful Work! Mid 19th C. Box with Painted Interior Lid and Drawer carved wooden toggle 4" t x 2" wide

4" t x 2" wide and deep and in very good condition

and then these thin trails of lines surrounding them like a soft cloud

I don't think detracting

or on a shelf

and these structures making me think of Holland

SOLD Henrietta Work's Very Wonderful Work! Mid 19th C. Box with Painted Interior Lid and Drawer carved wooden toggle 4" t x 2" widePure love for this box, one of those things that just had to be mine, and which I'll be glad to live with for the rest of my life. And I like it all the more for its humble exterior which does little suggest the rich joys of its interior life! Likely painted when Henrietta was just a school girl, proudly spelling out her full name in block letters between rainbow like arcs of color (and what an excellent name, seeming also to describe her efforts here