Young Woman with Mask, 19th C. Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame conjoining vases I've found a few other

I've found a few other old French hand-painted souvenir boxes

For sure the day is July 4

treated as a sculpture to be enjoyed in the round

Approx 6 1/8" x 4 7/16" x 7/8"

Young Woman with Mask, 19th C. Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame conjoining vases I've found a few otherThere seem to be a fair number of i18th and 19th c. images of young women holding masks, inspired I believe by the popularity of masquerade balls; whether this folk watercolor was based on a specific popular print I have not been able to discern, but it may well have been. Whatever the case, I take it on its own terms and think it's fabulous, with the big blue eyed, side cast gaze of this young woman seeming to sparkle with a coy mischievousness. I