Stunning Antique Bentwood Handle Wooden Pantry Box in Blue Paint signed David gil with bobbin lace insets on

with bobbin lace insets on the borders

and I think that is likely correct

and studied fresco painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France--later painting a series of WPA funded murals in the U

This teapot was designed by Lagardo Tackett for Schmid Porcelain in the 1960s and made in Japan

5 which I might guess meant ounces or grams per unit

Stunning Antique Bentwood Handle Wooden Pantry Box in Blue Paint signed David gil with bobbin lace insets onI'm not an expert on antique bentwood pantry boxes, but I've looked at enough to recognize a really beautiful and beautifully constructed one, and this, though missing a lid, is most definitely is that to me it completely embodies why one might become obsessed with antique bentwood pantry boxes! The blue paint is, to my eye, just out of this world, as is the bleed from the neat row of fat iron nails down the seam. 19th century New England I believe