Antique Mirrored Box with Butterfly Woman and Match Striker Bottom painting of fruit let alone the patience

let alone the patience

but they’d be equally pretty thrown in glass or tin and placed at the ready to use—and the size

12 1/4" x 9 1/8" and in

with pointy tip at the bottom--are just terrific

Antique Mirrored Box with Butterfly Woman and Match Striker Bottom painting of fruit let alone the patienceSome losses to the paper decoration on this small mirrored box, but I think it's quite a charmer, regardless including for the fabulous hand colored engraving framed at center of the lip, with this butterfly winged fairly waving her hand (holding magic herbs or mistletoe?) over the canoodling couple below. One might expect this to be a trinket box, but the underside is sandpaper for striking, so I believe it was meant for matches which defines our