Beautiful 19th C. Folk Art Painted Miniature Dome Top Chest movable legs and care of "Grandfather Clough"

and care of "Grandfather Clough"

I might just set it on a shelf or bar to admire and spur visions of adventure

but just enhancing its sense of objecthood a bit

all the more for trials he's surely been through

Carrier measures 8 1/2" long x 5 3/4" wide

Beautiful 19th C. Folk Art Painted Miniature Dome Top Chest movable legs and care of "Grandfather Clough"So lovely and special feeling, I believe this miniature folk art painted dome top chest is Northern European, and I'd guess German, as to me the painted houses on it remind me very much of early German Erzgebirge ones. (A similar one, sold at Skinner for $300+, was attributed as Northern European.) Wonderfully painted on every side, with the topiary esque green trees against white with blue sky above and yellow ground below especially doing it for me.