Featured Painted box help

No-I couldn't figure out what Charlie was referring to.

 

It's not paper-mache so therefor not Russian, hinges look handmade, gesso under the paint. As AJ has already said "northern European, folk art" I think barge ware and given that sort of style hasn't really been a fashion in the 20th c I would put it in the 19th c

 

Nor could I.

 

yeah i was referring to the above message, didn't know if you were saying it could be, or definitely wasn't

like a........sarcastic really ?

easy to read things 2 ways sometimes

 

No I wasn't being sarcastic at all, I think maybe it is 19th c

 

Yes, bargeware is in the same vein as Continental folk painting. We have Hindeloopen painting and Assendelfts painting, Norway has Rosemåling, which was inspired by Dutch folk painting.

 

Examples of Dutch Hindeloopen and Assendelft folk painting in this thread:

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/painted-frisian-hindeloopen-peat-box.77931/#post-9430570

 

can definitely see they are in the same tradition, and really like the dutch examples, they really are charming.

i never noticed the little birdie on the box before, and now how i wish it was a parrot

 

I don't see it.

 

damn it, don't think it is now, thought there might have been one in the top of the middle roses

 

Maybe it flew away?

 

i think its plain to see

 

Yep, it just flew away.

Edit: it is still there, made a nest in the flower.

 

mighta added a few strokes though

 

The beak? Without it it looks more like a fish.

 

and the eye

honestly the talent of the man

 

I know! Turns a fish into a bird!