Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles sculpture of a couple but could also be used

but could also be used as a small serving bowl

Plain blue paper cover

feeling like a cross between wax and tar

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Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles sculpture of a couple but could also be usedA friend and fellow antiques dealer was expressing to me just the other day his enamourment with smoke decorated objects; I must admit I'd never paid super close attention, but then came across this tin and I must say I'm smitten. Smoke decorating, or smoke painting, became popular in the late 18th century and was used well into the 19th, done by manipulating a sooty candle over the surface of a newly painted object, still wet, to produce various