Ultra Folky Old Hand-carved Wooden Sweetheart Box with Portrait, Nude, Houses, Bottle, and Butterfly! ikat mid 1800s I believe and

mid 1800s I believe and maybe even a bit earlier

To me his paintings are also exceptionally good ones to live with

that really get me--stretching on forever

I'd say this wonderfully naive

Ultra Folky Old Hand-carved Wooden Sweetheart Box with Portrait, Nude, Houses, Bottle, and Butterfly! ikat mid 1800s I believe andThis chunky hand carved box is about as far from refined as they come, but it is very hard trying and very endearing and I could not walk away from it. I feel fairly certain it was made as a sweetheart gift; i take the portrait in profile carved into the top as a portrait of the sweetheart in question. Circling her around the sides of the box are a reclining nude, viewed from the rear; a cheerful butterfly, a bottle (rum or whisky I'm not sure!), and