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

The smaller 3 1/2" x 2"x 1/2"

with a diameter of 2

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

some detailed with veins that simultaneously read as whisps of hair framing each face

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