CAKE, Perfectly Pink (Marie Antoinette-esque) 10 Inch Antique Stencil Painted Tin sports and with the seaweed beautifully

and with the seaweed beautifully arranged into a large cross

and much wear to the wooden figures

I believe likely late 19th c

I'm fussy about Color Cubes--some are more beautiful than others--and this is a very very beautiful

but average about 5/8" across

CAKE, Perfectly Pink (Marie Antoinette-esque) 10 Inch Antique Stencil Painted Tin sports and with the seaweed beautifullyI have a special weakness for old cake tins and chests, specifically those that have CAKE stenciled across their fronts. I think because CAKE is one of the best words ever, and also because it makes the tin feel like a present and a promise of marvelous delights. And this one, in old pink paint and rust here and there, seems about as perfect an encapsulation of the inherent tensions within Marie Antoinette's famous cake eating mantra as could be. Very