Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster while a whimsy with pencil

while a whimsy with pencil drawn bricks sits atop it and a fluttering flag

late 19th/early 20th century American I would think

snapping closed at the top

as it will make a round

as if he is radiating energy

Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster while a whimsy with pencilThis is one of my favorite things I've ever found, purchased in Pennsylvania this summer and which I needed to live with for a bit, but which seems to me now a perfect Valentine, so here it is. Indeed, I would be willing to bet that it was made as just that, I have to think for a farmer's wife who appears on the lid of the box, holding up, and gazing into, what I believe is a small mirror. Carved into the sides of the box are three animals a mule on