Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster crowned and haloed

crowned and haloed

while a whimsy with pencil drawn bricks sits atop it and a fluttering flag

snapping closed at the top

as it will make a round

late 19th/early 20th century American I would think

Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster crowned and haloedThis is one of my favorite things I've ever found, purchased in Pennsylvania this summer and which I needed to live with for a bit, but which seems to me now a perfect Valentine, so here it is. Indeed, I would be willing to bet that it was made as just that, I have to think for a farmer's wife who appears on the lid of the box, holding up, and gazing into, what I believe is a small mirror. Carved into the sides of the box are three animals a mule on