19th C. Staffordshire Spill Vase with Doves and Snakes bank robbery In a very nice lemon

In a very nice lemon gold frame where it has clearly lived for a long time if not forever

Carved into the left side of the front with thumb hole at top is LMR 1897

Found in Pennsylvania and with a nice weight and fair amount of age on it I believe

1930s-40s I believe

which I think this one does

19th C. Staffordshire Spill Vase with Doves and Snakes bank robbery In a very nice lemonSometimes one wants something that feels like a bit of Rococo fun, plus I love a snake, this one about to steal an egg from the nest of this pair of doves in what one could read as a clash between good and evil. 19th c. Staffordshire, with hand painted details in gold and black and green. The form is that of a spill vase, typically kept on the mantle and used for containing splints, spills, and tapers for transferring fire, for example to light a