"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier nail loom with a nice little ding

with a nice little ding

I think the box is original to them

there has been some deterioration to the bronze: one of the hinges connecting the lid to the rod on the back of the box is broken

5ʺw × 8ʺd × 5ʺh

"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier nail loom with a nice little dingI might guess that this watercolor was done by the mother of this child, perhaps made for her husband, who perhaps was away, or for a friend without children, and I would think done with no small dose of irony. Who knows? Now though, on its own, the text in combination with image might be read in all sorts of ways, including perhaps as expressing the sentiments of the baby, sucking away on what I take as a pacifier. I'm pretty delighted by those two