Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles sculpture of a couple all still held taut

all still held taut

feeling like a cross between wax and tar

aided by the fact that she was carved from one block very solidly

His contributions included a major role in the development of the second law of  thermodynamics

Sight" 5" x 3 1/2"

Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles sculpture of a couple all still held tautA friend and fellow antiques dealer was expressing to me just the other day his enamourment with smoke decorated objects; I must admit I'd never paid super close attention, but then came across this tin and I must say I'm smitten. Smoke decorating, or smoke painting, became popular in the late 18th century and was used well into the 19th, done by manipulating a sooty candle over the surface of a newly painted object, still wet, to produce various