Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles horse drawing but I must say I

but I must say I like these even better

but the arched pieces at bottom

These wonderful hand-carved wooden feet

Salish weavers are well known for their coiled baskets

which left these wonderful faint shadow forms

Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles horse drawing but I must say IA friend and fellow antiques dealer was expressing to me just the other day his enamourment with smoke decorated objects; I must admit I'd never paid super close attention, but then came across this tin and I must say I'm smitten. Smoke decorating, or smoke painting, became popular in the late 18th century and was used well into the 19th, done by manipulating a sooty candle over the surface of a newly painted object, still wet, to produce various