Painted Cigar Box with Wide Eyed Portrait bisque doll legs 1830s-50s or so I confident

1830s-50s or so I confident

Just a beauty of a vase

Wood backing and wired for hanging

around which her cotton bloomers are cinched (I have not tried to remove those

Painted Cigar Box with Wide Eyed Portrait bisque doll legs 1830s-50s or so I confidentPurchased from a dealer at Brimfield who always has great things, I really like how the portrait painted on the face of the cigar box looks as if preparing for their secrets to be revealed when one opens the box! And so perhaps just the right box in which to store one's diary, or stash of nude photos or pile of bills! Also stands on end to display just as a painting. 9" x 7 1 2" x 1 7 8". Good condition, with a fine, barely visible split in the wood