Fox and Crow, Earlyish 20th C. Brass Fable Button cauldron with a watercolored Dutch boy

with a watercolored Dutch boy and girl holding hands

known by the Name of Foxes

which does not impact smooth rolling

but would guess it dates from the the 1930s or 40s

and I find them completely joyful

Fox and Crow, Earlyish 20th C. Brass Fable Button cauldron with a watercolored Dutch boyI don't typically buy and sell buttons, but I found this one a month or two in a shop from which I was also buying some extraordinary early embroidered trim, and just liked it perhaps especially for the fable of the fox and crow it illustrates: a warning against being vulnerable to flattery, which seems particularly relevant these days and especially apt communicated via a shiny object! Maybe the perfect if not so subtle gift for one's dear but too