SOLD Painterly Pair of c. Early 19th Century Hinged, Lacquered Snuff Boxes lattice trivet and then this great fence

and then this great fence around them and two great brown ducks marching along below

Oil on unstretched canvas

perhaps boar’s hair on the other

A very very charming thing

SOLD Painterly Pair of c. Early 19th Century Hinged, Lacquered Snuff Boxes lattice trivet and then this great fenceI found these two together in New Hampshire and think they are perfectly complimentary, so am offering them as a pair. Both lacquered papier mache, Georgian period British I believe, and I think meant to mimic tortoiseshell, but what I love about them is how much the black and red painted decoration resembles grain painting, super lush and painterly on the larger and looking as if applied with finger tips on the smaller. Like paint decorated American