This little box is a reproduction from the gift shop of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. I bought it when I was at a Children's Literature conference at Simmons College one summer.
The Gardner Museum was established in 1903 by a wealthy patron of the arts. It is best known for the 1990 theft of thirteen works of art valued at over $500 million, including The Concert, one of Johannes Vermeer's thirty-five known paintings, and three works by Rembrandt. It is considered the biggest art theft—and property theft—in history; the crime remains unsolved. The museum still displays the paintings' empty frames in their original locations according to the strict provisions of Gardner's will, which instructed that the collection be maintained unchanged.
I took this picture with my iPod Touch camera. I replaced my earlier Touch because I had run out of space on the old one and the new model finally has a camera!
I really like this little figurine. Birds in a nest with a bouquet of flowers in the nest ,too; anyhow that's what I see (although my eyes and brain are tired). Amazing story about the Art Robbery.....
Cute little box. I do remember that art theft. Amazing that someone got away with it.
Thanks for the comment on my squirrel pic. I think that perhaps he does remember me. He doesn't run like the other ones that pop out of the garbage cans and head for the trees. :-)
Sweet Frog is on Hull St. but there is one at Short Pump too but I'm not exactly sure where.
Thanks for the comment on my squirrel pic. I think that perhaps he does remember me. He doesn't run like the other ones that pop out of the garbage cans and head for the trees. :-)