Wonderful Antique Hand-carved Heart Shaped Box with Scalloped Edges Everywhere miniature portrait painting and in full on the

and in full on the back

A little paint loss along the left edge in addition to stains along the right edge and over the water

plus that pink border with tiny knots along the top

(I believe it would then be Lake Pátzcuaro delineated more or less by the lines drawn in front of her chest

which I presume was made as a snuff box

Wonderful Antique Hand-carved Heart Shaped Box with Scalloped Edges Everywhere miniature portrait painting and in full on theOne of a number of hearts this week; I think even more than ever I am looking for tokens of love these days, to surround oneself with as buffers against so much harshness. And what a beauty of antique hand carved heart shaped box, radiating a whole lot of love and care (and time!) invested in its making. I've really never seen another this scale and with so detailed; more often one sees smaller, simpler versions (I have a second listed today that