Baccante dell'Ercolano, Much Handled 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Watercolor vintage plaque so maybe good for a

so maybe good for a box of matches

and because it is full of mostly blank pages just waiting to be used

I also love that he spelled her name two different ways

applied their knowledge of straw work to construct boxes in this manner

other stone about 1 7/8"

Baccante dell'Ercolano, Much Handled 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Watercolor vintage plaque so maybe good for aI believe this 19th century Italian gouache watercolor was someone's Grand Tour purchase; some notations in graphite at the top of the paper seem to have recorded the date of purchase and what was paid, but it's a but hard to decipher. (I think maybe the year of purchase was 1895, though I believe the painting is likely a bit older than that.) This allegorical "baccante" (follower of Bacchus) with basket on her head (filled with grapes I believe) and