Elaborate Antique Tramp Art Clock Case in Original Gold Paint tea ceremony The interior of the lid

The interior of the lid and body reveals the stunning original

with a wonderful little face too

and with a nice warm dry wood patina as well

this particular example I think holds all the charm of fraktur watercolors

Elaborate Antique Tramp Art Clock Case in Original Gold Paint tea ceremony The interior of the lidClearly there is a missing stacked section at the front base of this antique tramp art clock case, and a few other little edge bits missing from the lid, but I think the form and construction is so beautiful I could not leave it. I especially love the roof, which lifts off (so that I assume, one could wind the clock that once lived inside), making the whole thing feel like a gothic house of sorts and revealing a lithographed portrait glued to the