Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles horse drawing These wonderful hand-carved wooden feet

These wonderful hand-carved wooden feet

crowned and haloed

with wear and paint loss as evident

which left these wonderful faint shadow forms

Really great and surely fodder for all sorts of creative applications

Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles horse drawing These wonderful hand-carved wooden feetA 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