SOLD Henrietta Work's Very Wonderful Work! Mid 19th C. Box with Painted Interior Lid and Drawer carved wooden toggle with the splint itself painted

with the splint itself painted gold in those areas

while the sifting area is woven of a finely twisted natural fiber the same color just a shade darker than the grass

and these structures making me think of Holland

4" t x 2" wide and deep and in very good condition

13 3/4" x 13 3/4"

SOLD Henrietta Work's Very Wonderful Work! Mid 19th C. Box with Painted Interior Lid and Drawer carved wooden toggle with the splint itself paintedPure love for this box, one of those things that just had to be mine, and which I'll be glad to live with for the rest of my life. And I like it all the more for its humble exterior which does little suggest the rich joys of its interior life! Likely painted when Henrietta was just a school girl, proudly spelling out her full name in block letters between rainbow like arcs of color (and what an excellent name, seeming also to describe her efforts here