Early 19th C. British Lacquered Papier Mache Snuff Box, View From Below! antique cup I think it's the approaching

I think it's the approaching summer (and the accompanying fantasies of going sailing) that is drawing me to ships in a bottle of late

I'm a sucker for a folk art house of any sort

including some ancient Chancay Peruvian woven pieces

a descendant (the great granddaughter

This is one of two pitchers I grabbed on my very first real-world antiquing outing after months of lockdown

Early 19th C. British Lacquered Papier Mache Snuff Box, View From Below! antique cup I think it's the approachingSuch a fun one. I'm always delighted by the humor of those Brits in the early 1800s this Georgian snuff box immediately made me think of a Sunderland transferware chamber pot I once had of the same period, with witty verse of the toilet humor variety and a frog inside, waiting with open mouth! This snuff box feels more carnivalesque, as if a window offering a view of a boy uncomfortably trapped inside the box! A rare one, and a great one, which also