19th C. Staffordshire Spill Vase with Doves and Snakes bank robbery Carved into the left side

Carved into the left side of the front with thumb hole at top is LMR 1897

in two different styles)  and animals on the two others

It is my photo not the painting that is a little crooked

In a very nice lemon gold frame where it has clearly lived for a long time if not forever

which I have not touch

19th C. Staffordshire Spill Vase with Doves and Snakes bank robbery Carved into the left sideSometimes one wants something that feels like a bit of Rococo fun, plus I love a snake, this one about to steal an egg from the nest of this pair of doves in what one could read as a clash between good and evil. 19th c. Staffordshire, with hand painted details in gold and black and green. The form is that of a spill vase, typically kept on the mantle and used for containing splints, spills, and tapers for transferring fire, for example to light a