Painted Shoe-Shaped Nearly Flat Folk Art Box 19th c smoke decorated tin 8" l x 5" d

8" l x 5" d x 3 3/8" t

I haven't been able to find much about the plot

This drawing was made on a trip to Brittany in 1909

though it would make a pretty great trivet

Painted Shoe-Shaped Nearly Flat Folk Art Box 19th c smoke decorated tin 8" l x 5" dThe paint on this unusual little shoe shaped box has nice age to it; I'd guess 1920s 30s or so, though maybe a little earlier than that. I love the long, nearly flat form, as if nodding to the elongated proportions of clown shoes, and the surprise of realizing the "lid" slides off to reveal a secret hiding place. Perhaps the upper and lower were once joined, I'm honestly not sure, but now they just fit together nicely, with a carve out in the