Stunning Antique Bentwood Handle Wooden Pantry Box in Blue Paint folk art bull While flat and created as

While flat and created as a sculpture rather than to be worn

and this sgraffito design is just fantastic

I found this wonderful box at an estate sale in MA in a modest house packed to the gills with a long lifetime's accumulation

1 3/8" tall x 13/16 wide x 7/8" deep

Stunning Antique Bentwood Handle Wooden Pantry Box in Blue Paint folk art bull While flat and created asI'm not an expert on antique bentwood pantry boxes, but I've looked at enough to recognize a really beautiful and beautifully constructed one, and this, though missing a lid, is most definitely is that to me it completely embodies why one might become obsessed with antique bentwood pantry boxes! The blue paint is, to my eye, just out of this world, as is the bleed from the neat row of fat iron nails down the seam. 19th century New England I believe