Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame Chinese five-drawer jewelry box I first picked up this

I first picked up this box (on a recent real-world antiquing exhibition) just for its lovely exterior

making the loser unload the dishwasher or take out the trash

with some smudges that seem likely to have been incurred during its making

Left: 6 1/4" t

9 1/4" long x 1 7/8" across at ferrule (where bristles attach to handle

Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame Chinese five-drawer jewelry box I first picked up thisI love this watercolor, and the tramp frame, and think they make a happy marriage. (Forgive the glare in photos.) Santa (who happily looks more like dad as Santa than "Santa") was executed on orange construction paper mounted to green, dated Dec. 13 and signed AW at the bottom left. Fabulous beard, fabulous boots, fabulous decorated tree (which Santa appears to be hailing), and this curiously sparse arrangement of objects underneath the tree a tiny