Painted Shoe-Shaped Nearly Flat Folk Art Box box with drawers and with rarely straight lines

and with rarely straight lines dividing the entries

Framed: 17 3/4” x 15”

4 7/8" x 3 1/4" t x 1 3/8" and in very good vintage condition

and could now house matches

Great graphics and really fun

Painted Shoe-Shaped Nearly Flat Folk Art Box box with drawers and with rarely straight linesThe paint on this unusual little shoe shaped box has nice age to it; I'd guess 1920s 30s or so, though maybe a little earlier than that. I love the long, nearly flat form, as if nodding to the elongated proportions of clown shoes, and the surprise of realizing the "lid" slides off to reveal a secret hiding place. Perhaps the upper and lower were once joined, I'm honestly not sure, but now they just fit together nicely, with a carve out in the