Old Wooden Box with Carved Tombstone Lid figurative rug The faces on these children

The faces on these children just kill me

both collected in Japan and by contemporary makers

and might guess they were all once part of Miss Fanny Allen's collection

Based in Beverly

takes its inspiration from the poem by Alexander Pope reproduced below

Old Wooden Box with Carved Tombstone Lid figurative rug The faces on these childrenJust a chunky old small wooden box, which looks perhaps to have held drill bits at some point, but which I really love for its carved tombstone style sliding lid, which for me at least turns it into a potential stage of sorts, which one might turn on its side and slide the lid up on like a theater curtain to reveal a surprise inside! (Maybe that's just me! But there is a notch mid way up on the face of the box that will hold the lid open at the mid