Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster late 19th/early 20th century American

late 19th/early 20th century American I would think

while a whimsy with pencil drawn bricks sits atop it and a fluttering flag

These I think are renderings of pre- or just hatched snakes of some sort

some detailed with veins that simultaneously read as whisps of hair framing each face

crowned and haloed

Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster late 19th/early 20th century AmericanThis is one of my favorite things I've ever found, purchased in Pennsylvania this summer and which I needed to live with for a bit, but which seems to me now a perfect Valentine, so here it is. Indeed, I would be willing to bet that it was made as just that, I have to think for a farmer's wife who appears on the lid of the box, holding up, and gazing into, what I believe is a small mirror. Carved into the sides of the box are three animals a mule on