Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back snip cards what a striking

what a striking

” I found it quite interesting to learn that Lavater's physiognomy work (which became enormously popular in France and England especially) is attributed with catalyzing the golden age for cut paper silhouettes

resting on the flat end

I purchased it because I thought it was just a beautiful and curious sculptural object that would look great propped or hanging somewhere

called "handa" in Japanese

Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back snip cards what a strikingI love a book shaped box, or book shaped anything, really, and love the very folky relief carving as well as the hidden box deceptiveness! about this one. Terrific faces and hands and hair and surface on the mother and daughter in chair carved on the face of it, with ALBUM arching overhead making it all feel very cozy, and a wonderfully carved latch lock, too, spanning the gold painted recessed "pages" on the side. On the reverse, unusual in my