Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) marketing The carving is just fantastic

The carving is just fantastic

with one of the original pins in tact for holding the long sides together

14 1/4" tall x 7 1/2" wide with arms and legs hanging down

Jones viewed his carvings as people and believed that if he carved a figure of a man

5 1/2" long x 5 3/4" tall x 2 1/4" wide

Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) marketing The carving is just fantasticThis early hand painted snuff box lid has no bottom, but it's all about the lid anyway. (I'd probably treat it just like a miniature portrait and hang it directly from a nail on the wall.) I've gotten pretty into portraits of woman lately, and have especially been keeping an eye out for portraits of young women with birds, which it seems were used to signal a range of things, from virtue to nobility to (sexual) freedom to fertility. I''m guessing it's