Fantastic Antique Folk Art Costumes Watercolor on Laid woman with large nose I really love the long

I really love the long

Links are about 1 3/8" long each and cage is 4 3/8" long

which seems like it could have been inspired by the work of Paul Klee (see Park bei Lu 1938

with no sign that it ever had a lid to function as a snuff box

Fantastic Antique Folk Art Costumes Watercolor on Laid woman with large nose I really love the longThis is one of my favorite things I've found and I'd be very glad to keep it for myself, but I've gotten so in the habit of listing everything! It is ink and watercolor on laid paper, and I would guess early mid 19th century, but a bit of a mystery beyond that. What I know is that there was a good deal of interest in international costume in the early 1800s both in Europe and in American (I have a hand colored deck of "cards" made from American