FIVE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR ILLUSTRATED MINIATURE BOXES, ALL SIGNED

by The Artist by Dooley Dionysius

$1,250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

nd ca.1930's? . Five small decorative boxes three wooden or metal matchboxes, two metal keepsakes , embellished with miniature, jewel-like hand-painted watercolor scenes. Two bear printed labels, most likely also designed by Dionysius, advertising his miniatures, and naming the scenes depicted Old South shows young ladies in hoop skirts; Atlantis depicts a young couple in archaic dress . Clasp lacking on one of the metal keepsake boxes, but all images bright, with intense colors and

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