c. 1840s American Wallpaper Band Box with Decoupage in Glorious Yellow and Blue 18th century cup to her bangled wrist and

to her bangled wrist and the way her hand leans on this pedestal

soulful representation as poignant a depiction of being trapped--literally chained--in limbo as could be

It seems to me the scene depicted includes a Native American in canoe coming to assist in the defeat of the serpent

On the back of the stretcher is written Stanwood

I've been paying more attention to hand-painted folk art tintypes of late

c. 1840s American Wallpaper Band Box with Decoupage in Glorious Yellow and Blue 18th century cup to her bangled wrist andI paid a fair bit for this one, and will be very glad to keep it for myself I simply could not resist that yellow, or that blue, and even more so the two of them together. (I have not at all amped up the color here.) Unusual in my experience to find one with decoupage elements on the exterior, too, which I find very charming this is American, c. 1840s I believe (with a stars and stripes shield at the center and en eagle too) but someone was also