Peace and Plenty: Large Tole Painted Late 18th Century Tobacco/Snuff Box patterned wonderfully personal

wonderfully personal

as the carved stopper is locked forever in place by a cross bar

with the color showing on the top side and the natural gray unpainted paper on the underside

Her work has been widely exhibited and is most prominently featured in the WInkel Sculpture Court at SUNY Plattsburg

And so it makes perfect sense that he would also--perhaps in collaboration with Lilla--create photographs like these

Peace and Plenty: Large Tole Painted Late 18th Century Tobacco/Snuff Box patterned wonderfully personalPeace and plenty, how to argue with that? And it looks to me like a pair of bee skeps here, side by side, used to illustrate the phrase a pair of happy colonies, coexisting in peace. I know this is English, c. 1790s an early one, painted tin, and a large one,for tobacco or snuff. I love how wonderfully folky the lettering is and those freehand curlicues, perhaps suggesting bees buzzing around! 5 7 8" w x 3 3 8" d x 1 3 16" t and in good condition.