Antique Folk Art Box with Gilded Carved Decoration brown glazed bowl but in very good condition

but in very good condition

but I think it's pretty cool

looking askance) a bit different in style than the others

and the back side

Antique Folk Art Box with Gilded Carved Decoration brown glazed bowl but in very good conditionI 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