Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles cultivator or one could

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and it appears that there were probably once more wooden crosses in the windows--now just appearing in the front right window

enhanced by strips of darker wood

but surely this bowl was once a basket--there is a one remaining piece of the handle on the interior of one side

I do know that these small watercolors on heavyweight handmade paper are Tibetan Tsakli

Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles cultivator or one couldA friend and fellow antiques dealer was expressing to me just the other day his enamourment with smoke decorated objects; I must admit I'd never paid super close attention, but then came across this tin and I must say I'm smitten. Smoke decorating, or smoke painting, became popular in the late 18th century and was used well into the 19th, done by manipulating a sooty candle over the surface of a newly painted object, still wet, to produce various