Little Wooden Florentine Box with Portrait wooden toad glass eyes and I think they must

and I think they must be luckier

There is a small ink smudge above the eye on her right thigh

almost--I think she seems a bit like the female incarnation of St

It feels very Zen to me--a completely harmonious balance of form

and also to sound: the ethnologist Angelika Gebhart-Sayer has termed these patterns “visual music”

Little Wooden Florentine Box with Portrait wooden toad glass eyes and I think they mustI believe this sweet little wooden box was a Florentine souvenir, c. 1920s or so, with raised gold painted detailing and lovely portrait of a red haired woman at center. Hinged, with a red painted interior, it would be good for jewelry or other little things, and definitely makes me want to be wandering around the Uffizi when I look at it! 3 1 4" x 2" x 1 5 8" t. A couple of small dings but overall good condition, with a nice old world sort of