Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles sculpture of a couple Plain blue paper cover

Plain blue paper cover

as if needing to be reminded over and over

or of her "Momma" and "Papa" and their activities

feeling like a cross between wax and tar

1827-1868--and between her kind face

Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles sculpture of a couple Plain blue paper coverA 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