Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box nails The front of the tile

The front of the tile is executed in partial relief

dates I believe to the late 1800s

but with its solid black ground also looks really sharp against crisp white bedding

Clearly it was made for a purpose

which I think gives this little rabbit a very energetic feeling and immediacy

Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box nails The front of the tileThere are some very fancy little antique shoe shaped snuff boxes out there with all sorts of inlays and flourishes, but I love the relative humility of this one (and its great silhouette), with just some sweet decorative detail carved into the pointy toe and a short heel at the other end. There is some old hand written cursive text on the bottom of the box, I believe in pencil, but it is very faint and I am unable to read it; I do believe this little