Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs mini sculpture and contains two interior trays

and contains two interior trays with incised banded designs on sides and bottoms

so if keeping them in the box a rubber band or two would be useful around it if on the go

It has seen some use

And peering through the open windows reveals that the inside was built out too (before being closed up with a wooden bottom)

Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs mini sculpture and contains two interior traysA curious one, at least to me, which I understand from the seller would have been made for an Italian opera theatre, portraying a bit of the action and hung outside the theater as signage of sorts. It seems to me that the painting which has some of the feel (and drama!) of an ex voto retablo to me, and also a telenovela! was painted on a very old wooden panel, salvaged from something else, in the top corners of which (my favorite thing, best seen in