Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) beveled glass This would once have lived

This would once have lived inside a tall wooden case I believe

it seems pretty stable at this point

which feels as relaxed and joyful and confisdent as the nude herself looks

enhancing the pleasure of this wonderfully unproductive mechanical operation

Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) beveled glass This would once have livedThis 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