Wonderful Painted Pine Folk Art House (Tea Caddy?) with Roof Loss northeastern basket to who it is attributed

to who it is attributed on the back of the frame (with the first and second names reversed) noting that he was born in 1876 in Seneca

barely visible to the eye

so perhaps it read Arts of Japan or Arts of China

It does seem possible it is indeed that old

clear and very readable

Wonderful Painted Pine Folk Art House (Tea Caddy?) with Roof Loss northeastern basket to who it is attributedThis wonderful house shaped box has lost the overhang of its roof on the back side and has a small loss on the front side too, but I loved it way way too much to leave it behind. With that roof hinged on the left side and a latch on the other, I believe most likely it was made to function as a tea caddy (there are some very fine 19th c example of tea caddies in the form of houses). Painted the perfect yellow with curtained windows and some greenery