Wonderful OId Folk Art Ashray with Carved Recess for Pipe japanese zodiak structurally sound and stable

structurally sound and stable

densely covering every inch of the top and most of the sides--all very painstakingly done

I might guess there were a couple of makers involved in creating these six soldiers

and I would guess done in response to a grade school assignment

with a bit of greening to the metal on the underside and a tiny bit on the base

Wonderful OId Folk Art Ashray with Carved Recess for Pipe japanese zodiak structurally sound and stableThe latest and I think greatest find reflecting my predilection for representations of pipes, which always feel Magritte ian to me, and Duchampian too. This wonderful thing I know from the seller was found in New England and obviously all carved from one piece of wood (hardwood, or possibly a tropical wood) and I believe likely dates to about 1900 or so. In addition to being wonderfully primitive, to me it speaks all about absence and also