Emma Dilmore's Marvelous Bird and Girl and Flowers in Great Antique Lemon Gold Frame old kitchen tool This hand-painted Chinese jewelry box

This hand-painted Chinese jewelry box just makes me happy

13" in diameter x 3/4" d

I have not found another set out there like them

which one would need to easily snip should one wish to wear it

hitched quirts and other functional pieces were also produced in penitentiary craft programs throughout the western United States

Emma Dilmore's Marvelous Bird and Girl and Flowers in Great Antique Lemon Gold Frame old kitchen tool This hand-painted Chinese jewelry boxThis is one of several c. 1890s drawings by a brilliant young Emma Dilmore that I purchased from a seller near Kansas City, MO and just exactly the sort of watercolor drawing I am forever searching for. Double sided (reverse shown) but I think this purple crested, orange breasted bird floating in the air above two colorfully blooming plants wins, and gave it special treatment by placing it in a really lovely recently purchased 19th century lemon gold