Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) picture of farm South Weymouth MA

South Weymouth MA

Light rusting but overall very good condition

and indeed have learned they are pretty rare--and this set all the rarer for being double nines rather than double sixes--and all 55 of them are here

Based on the plaited structure of the bottom of the basket and incorporation of raffia as the weft

Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) picture of farm South Weymouth MAThis early hand painted snuff box lid has no bottom, but it's all about the lid anyway. (I'd probably treat it just like a miniature portrait and hang it directly from a nail on the wall.) I've gotten pretty into portraits of woman lately, and have especially been keeping an eye out for portraits of young women with birds, which it seems were used to signal a range of things, from virtue to nobility to (sexual) freedom to fertility. I''m guessing it's