Gorgeous Mid 19th Century New England Lathe Turned Round Dough/Bread Board with Marble-like Surface miniature painted houses 6 13/16" long measured top

6 13/16" long measured top to toe

In addition to painting

making this woman's lifting of her skirt feel all the more like a transgression

which the four small holes on the lid and front of the box indicate it once had

Gorgeous Mid 19th Century New England Lathe Turned Round Dough/Bread Board with Marble-like Surface miniature painted houses 6 13/16" long measured topWhen I spotted this one at an antiques show in MA last week, at first I thought it was made of marble (and a friend seeing it a few minutes later thought the same) always hard to feel things from photos, but the color on the wood is rather otherworldly, and the surface, though showing cut marks all over, is worn marble smooth. And the two sets of rings perfectly imperfect in their not exactly centered placement on the not quite a perfect circle board