Antique Mirrored Box with Butterfly Woman and Match Striker Bottom painting of fruit 1920s-40s I would think

1920s-40s I would think

I purchased this from a collector in Chicago

as shown in photos)-- the paper is actually longer

Painting: 12 x 12 3/16

but they’d be equally pretty thrown in glass or tin and placed at the ready to use—and the size

Antique Mirrored Box with Butterfly Woman and Match Striker Bottom painting of fruit 1920s-40s I would thinkSome losses to the paper decoration on this small mirrored box, but I think it's quite a charmer, regardless including for the fabulous hand colored engraving framed at center of the lip, with this butterfly winged fairly waving her hand (holding magic herbs or mistletoe?) over the canoodling couple below. One might expect this to be a trinket box, but the underside is sandpaper for striking, so I believe it was meant for matches which defines our