Woman with Mirror and Animals, Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art Jewelry Box plaster with a diameter of 2

with a diameter of 2

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

snapping closed at the top

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 with a diameter of 2This 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