Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster snapping closed at the top

snapping closed at the top

crowned and haloed

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

and especially the stylized green stem of the flower on this mid century

Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster snapping closed at the topThis 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