A Box for the Beauty: Lovingly Crafted Box with Inset Early 19th C. Miniature Watercolor Portrait chest of drawers Plus how to resist something

Plus how to resist something done by a girl with such a great name as Phebe Pusey Phipps

Some darkening around the rim of the plate

4 1/2” x 3 1/4” x 1 13/16” t

unevenness along bottom edge and one clean tear coming in from right edge

13 1/2" l x 10" w x 5 7/8" t and in very good condition

A Box for the Beauty: Lovingly Crafted Box with Inset Early 19th C. Miniature Watercolor Portrait chest of drawers Plus how to resist somethingOne of my very favorite Brimfield finds how fabulous is she?!!! But what makes this especially special is that the watercolor portrait miniature (c. 1830s I believe, and I'd guess French) and was beloved enough for someone to build a whole box around her, investing that box with much love and care. (I presume the portrait lost its original frame somewhere along the way and this box was made later, and likely later still lined with gold satin.)