Antique Folk Art Box with Gilded Carved Decoration brown glazed bowl Other than a few scattered

Other than a few scattered stains on the back and blue ink scratches over the stamp

but I think it's pretty cool

but in very good condition

each half 10 5/8" x 8 3/8"

drawing is 6 3/4" x 5 5/16"

Antique Folk Art Box with Gilded Carved Decoration brown glazed bowl Other than a few scatteredI love a chip carved tramp art box with lots of stacked layers, but I also love a more unusual hand carved box with a tramp y flavor, which is how I think of this one. The interlacing braided lattice pattern is all hand done, quite a skillful and laborious effort, then painted gold, which is still bright but mellowed some over what Id guess is about 100 years. The interior is lined in what appears to be hand printed paper, with a silver and gold