Antique Handmade Intensely Pyrographed Triangular Box with Woman Wearing Cross carved wooden bull 16 1/4" long x 10

16 1/4" long x 10 3/4" tall x 1 3/4" deep

a couple of town corners to inside pages

And then the back is painted too

and perhaps the shade of a few leafy branches overhead

Antique Handmade Intensely Pyrographed Triangular Box with Woman Wearing Cross carved wooden bull 16 1/4" long x 10I pass by a lot of old pyrographed boxes as the imagery tends to be fairly repetitive, but this one is its own special thing unusual in its triangular shape, intensely decorated with tiny pin prick marks all over, and with this lovely portrait of a woman with cross on top, looking herself intense in her devotion, which makes me think perhaps the box was made to hold a rosary. With cloth hinges secured with nice fat nails, and a patina that makes one