Late 1830s Naive British Ink and Watercolor: The Greyhound powder magazine A tiny bit of breakage

A tiny bit of breakage to the red dyed splints at the very center of the lid (I have yet to find one of these where that is not the case) but overall great condition

but I think they are especially great stacked

and then rounded on the bottom to sit nicely on whatever surface one might choose to display it

as I have found a few other pieces--cabinets mostly--with very very similar marquetry patterning

Late 1830s Naive British Ink and Watercolor: The Greyhound powder magazine A tiny bit of breakageThis marvelous ink and watercolor of "the greyhound" is one of a group I purchased from a seller in England, which had previously been bound together as a booklet, and which I am listing individually. Like this wonderful greyhound, each depicts a working animal in a very iconic and really quite regal manner to my eye just about as good as it gets. The odd watercolor in the group, portraying Dick Turpin and The Brothers' Gibbet at Gonerby, was made