Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) picture of farm South Weymouth MA

South Weymouth MA

There is a surface split on the left side of the skull and some roughness toward the tip of the blade but otherwise in very good condition and very stable

or something like that

which I know from tracing the Thompson

Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) picture of farm South Weymouth MAThis early hand painted snuff box lid has no bottom, but it's all about the lid anyway. (I'd probably treat it just like a miniature portrait and hang it directly from a nail on the wall.) I've gotten pretty into portraits of woman lately, and have especially been keeping an eye out for portraits of young women with birds, which it seems were used to signal a range of things, from virtue to nobility to (sexual) freedom to fertility. I''m guessing it's