Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) marketing 5 1/2" long x 5

5 1/2" long x 5 3/4" tall x 2 1/4" wide

No foxing or notable aging to the paper at all

brilliantly wrapped tight between notches carved into the sides of the frame

and then the cover slides flush over it

Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) marketing 5 1/2" long x 5This early hand painted snuff box lid has no bottom, but it's all about the lid anyway. (I'd probably treat it just like a miniature portrait and hang it directly from a nail on the wall.) I've gotten pretty into portraits of woman lately, and have especially been keeping an eye out for portraits of young women with birds, which it seems were used to signal a range of things, from virtue to nobility to (sexual) freedom to fertility. I''m guessing it's