French Olive Wood Souvenir Box from Epinal with Hand-painted Bird hair ornament Shop brush: 12x3x3"

Shop brush: 12x3x3"

Sara Ishikawa

There is some spotting on its base

but am certain these are well more than a century old

This is a terrific hand-thrown studio pottery bowl glazed with a grayish cream slip and decorated with wonderful large roundish dark blue spots

French Olive Wood Souvenir Box from Epinal with Hand-painted Bird hair ornament Shop brush: 12x3x3"I've found a few other old French hand painted souvenir boxes, but none anywhere close to as lovely as this one, made of beautiful olive wood, and with this charming bird on wispy branch painted on the lid, a red headed swallow I think? In the corner, in perfect cursive, is painted Epinal, a city in Northeastern France. The proportions of the box are terrific too, with these great rounded corners, plus a key hole on the front though there is no longer