Antique Painter's Travel Box with Palette and Latching Compartments finger joints The images here are a

The images here are a bit yellow-pinker than the actual drawing

This horse makes my heart ache I find it so beautiful--so humble and graceful and just right in its green paint

I can find no other featuring koi--so perhaps for an emperor

) I do believe one can never have too many books or book-shaped things--there's always a pile upon which a few more can be stacked

and the profile of a dog in the one to its right (and maybe also an embracing couple just underneath it)

Antique Painter's Travel Box with Palette and Latching Compartments finger joints The images here are aI really love these old painter's boxes, especially those still holding their original palettes, and will always scoop them up when I find them. C. 1870s, clearly well used, with all of its original components (less the paints and pots and brushes that would have been acquired to fill it.) The lid of the rear section pulls up to reveal grooves for tubes of paint or charcoals pastels, and the front section's top tray (meant for holding brushes) lifts