Cheerful Antique Pansy Painting on Wooden Painter's Palette couple just enough space to put

just enough space to put maybe a secret note or photo inside

I think—19th century British ink and watercolor rebus drawing that I am still trying to fully puzzle out

but have learned that it is an antique snuff box representative of a whole genre of figurative birch snuff boxes made in the 18th and 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany

and it does seem to build up some tension

and the figure’s costume particularly seems to suggest Chinese

Cheerful Antique Pansy Painting on Wooden Painter's Palette couple just enough space to putJust in time for spring, an antique painting on painter's palette of a proliferation of pansies, typically the first annuals of the year which always feel like a cheery welcome of to me. I really love the folkiness of these particular pansies, which together amount to what feels more like a festive riot than a careful arrangement just right! And someone really cared about either this palette or this painting, as there is a very careful mend (plug) in