Antique Folk Art Box with Gilded Carved Decoration european porcelain Hard to refuse happiness inducing

Hard to refuse happiness inducing creatures

or just hanging on the wall

some of them with writing on both sides

It's the cheerful yellow bird that really sold me

incredibly evocative thing

Antique Folk Art Box with Gilded Carved Decoration european porcelain Hard to refuse happiness inducingI love a chip carved tramp art box with lots of stacked layers, but I also love a more unusual hand carved box with a tramp y flavor, which is how I think of this one. The interlacing braided lattice pattern is all hand done, quite a skillful and laborious effort, then painted gold, which is still bright but mellowed some over what Id guess is about 100 years. The interior is lined in what appears to be hand printed paper, with a silver and gold