Wonderful Early-Mid 1800s Presumed American Shoe Shaped Box in Red Paint tabletopbarbed wire Bowl" 2 7/8" x 1

Bowl" 2 7/8" x 1 15/16" t

" but as numerous pages of description and instruction at the beginning of the booklet explains

with a wonderful painterliness to the body of the very cat-like cat animating it with lots of life

like a poet--or perhaps a therapist

I might guess this piece is quite an early one

Wonderful Early-Mid 1800s Presumed American Shoe Shaped Box in Red Paint tabletopbarbed wire Bowl" 2 7/8" x 1I love a carved shoe, and especially a carved shoe shaped snuff box, but I look at a whole lot of them and mostly let them go. This one though, no way. I purchased it on Ebay from a seller who seemed to have come into a very good small collection of them, all fine antique examples and this is the one I was determined to get. Based on the wood and the manner of the carving and that wonderful red paint, I believe this is American, early mid 19th