Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings Made of stained hardwood with

Made of stained hardwood with a nice grain to it  (one of these days I will learn how to better identify woods

is just the sort of thing I am forever opening antique books in hopes of finding--but never do

The lid features a striking interplay of thin splint strips and braided sweetgrass woven over thicker orange splints

slide the latch to open the interior compartment

I think it's terrific hung on the wall just as it is

Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings Made of stained hardwood withI do have a weakness for boxes, but even more so a weakness for glorious paint, and no way could I look at the painted decoration on this box and not need to have it near me, for a little while or forever! How joyful those stripes and curlicues like trains of smoke running up the sides against that gorgeous bittersweet ground, and then these diamond shaped fields of white dots on the slide lid, like abstracted clouds, and also feeling kin to early