French Bridal JD111 class - Cache Box bundle

Bundle includes this unfinished cache box, Lifetime streaming online class access, digital packet with color photos, step sheets, instructions needed to paint this beautiful keepsake box.   This box comes in two sizes and this is the large version.  The box is made from baltic birch ply and measures 9 1/2" long x 7 1/2" wide and 8" tall. The Alsace Region of Northern France seems to have a beautiful history of these early pieces. Very distinctive is the use of fairly large descending strings of dots (White or Vermillion), which are often interpreted as being a stylized Lily-of-the-Valley, but could also relate to the designs by Jacques Hurtu, which incorporated descending strings of pearls (in 1614). The French call the pearl patterns cosse-de-pois (pea-pod patterns). This idea was very popular in the early 1600’s. The flowers are stylized and varied in form. Shadows and highlights are represented mainly through hatching designs. Flower patterns spread out over the background, often bl