Intensively Stacked Sculptural Old Tramp Art Box with Hinged Lid and Velvet Lining hand-painted mid-century vase Ink on lined paper

Ink on lined paper

and also large enough to make a nice sculptural object for the wall

Someone long ago

especially along the top edge

Intensively Stacked Sculptural Old Tramp Art Box with Hinged Lid and Velvet Lining hand-painted mid-century vase Ink on lined paperI'm always thrilled to find a super sculptural tramp art box, just of this sort, and this one with a fantastic pattern of 12 stacked squares on the hinged lid. It's quite finely done, really almost delicate (though not fragile) just over 11 inches across, meaning that all those many many chip carved bits are small in scale and were very precisely laid. Beautiful all the way around with no notable losses, with the exception being the center front foot