Compass Rose Encircled in Red Rings, Sublime Hand-painted Early 19th Century Snuff Box antique sunderland I'm fussy about Color Cubes--some

I'm fussy about Color Cubes--some are more beautiful than others--and this is a very very beautiful

with this wonderful leaping Dutch boy in the perfect blue and orange outfit

Clearly it has lived in this frame for a long time and I have not opened it up

who almost seems as if lifted in from another scene entirely

Striking to see a young man with a lost eye uncovered by a patch

Compass Rose Encircled in Red Rings, Sublime Hand-painted Early 19th Century Snuff Box antique sunderland I'm fussy about Color Cubes--someAnother object that for me is pure perfection. The color, the paint, the patina, and what better than a compass rose at the center of a snuff box to carry around in one's pocket as one navigates through the world? Sublime, right down to the small white dots midway between each point of the star, and with those red rings evincing a target, as if this were the north star, to keep forever in one's sights. 2 15 16" d x 11 16" t. Just gorgeous paint,