C. 1880s Spice Box with Hand-lettered--and Spice Filled!--Tin Canisters Dorman hardware storage Impatience

Impatience

I've found this 1813 edition in the collection of the Morgan Library

with an oddly positioned--and anatomically suggestive

and formally love the rightward lean of the baby countered by the left-turning bent elbow of the arm about

I can find no name or date on it

C. 1880s Spice Box with Hand-lettered--and Spice Filled!--Tin Canisters Dorman hardware storage ImpatienceI purchased this in Pennsylvania, from a dealer specializing in 19th century stoneware bottles and crocks but from whom I've purchased a few other sorts of treasures. What really sold me was the beautiful hand painted gold lettering on the spice boxes in that best font. Only later did I discover that those boxes were still full of spices, a happy surprise! The cloves box is clearly filled with cloves indeed, but I'm not entirely sure what mix of dried