Incredible Late 18th/Early 19th Century Prisoner of War Book Shaped Straw Work Sewing Box with Four Inlaid Watercolors soft seascape and then what look like

and then what look like hummingbirds

But also a lovely thing just to set somewhere

and a fairly old one I believe

I have found only one other example from what must have been a number of dog plates they produced in blue and white

I love this wonderfully creepy-cheerful

Incredible Late 18th/Early 19th Century Prisoner of War Book Shaped Straw Work Sewing Box with Four Inlaid Watercolors soft seascape and then what look likeThe chance of finding and bringing home an object like this is what gets me out of bed early in the morning to go to a show and being a box, this itself embodies opens up as a series of discoveries. (For me this box also very much embodies the joy of looking and learning, as it is only recently that I've been awakened too the extraordinariness of late 18th early 19th century Napoleonic prisoner of war straw work. more on that below). This is a sewing