Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint Lincoln Institute for Psychology with a little fine cracking

with a little fine cracking to the surface of the wood as documented--more visible in photos than in hand

I had it sitting on a table amid a handful of wooden objects for a bit and they were all better for the proximity

pink papered interior

and I wonder perhaps if M

Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint Lincoln Institute for Psychology with a little fine crackingI do have a weakness for boxes, but even more so a weakness for glorious paint, and no way could I look at the painted decoration on this box and not need to have it near me, for a little while or forever! How joyful those stripes and curlicues like trains of smoke running up the sides against that gorgeous bittersweet ground, and then these diamond shaped fields of white dots on the slide lid, like abstracted clouds, and also feeling kin to early