Early 19th C. British Lacquered Papier Mache Snuff Box, View From Below! antique cup but is in excellent condition

but is in excellent condition

I'm a sucker for a folk art house of any sort

Signed on reverse by S

I think it's the approaching summer (and the accompanying fantasies of going sailing) that is drawing me to ships in a bottle of late

Signed on the bottom what appears to be the "ER"

Early 19th C. British Lacquered Papier Mache Snuff Box, View From Below! antique cup but is in excellent conditionSuch a fun one. I'm always delighted by the humor of those Brits in the early 1800s this Georgian snuff box immediately made me think of a Sunderland transferware chamber pot I once had of the same period, with witty verse of the toilet humor variety and a frog inside, waiting with open mouth! This snuff box feels more carnivalesque, as if a window offering a view of a boy uncomfortably trapped inside the box! A rare one, and a great one, which also