Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster and especially the stylized green

and especially the stylized green stem of the flower on this mid century

late 19th/early 20th century American I would think

as if he is radiating energy

These I think are renderings of pre- or just hatched snakes of some sort

The smaller 3 1/2" x 2"x 1/2"

Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster and especially the stylized greenThis is one of my favorite things I've ever found, purchased in Pennsylvania this summer and which I needed to live with for a bit, but which seems to me now a perfect Valentine, so here it is. Indeed, I would be willing to bet that it was made as just that, I have to think for a farmer's wife who appears on the lid of the box, holding up, and gazing into, what I believe is a small mirror. Carved into the sides of the box are three animals a mule on