Handmade Whisk Broom or Brush, Presumed Japanese fine porcelain There are a few small

There are a few small scuff marks and a couple of tiny chips in the glaze (not to the clay body) on the inside rim (only visible with lid off)

most likely due to the association of the color red with good luck

taking their different colors from a wide variety of cigarette brands

I have become super enamored of this type of old carved wood folk articulated or jointed figures

Handmade Whisk Broom or Brush, Presumed Japanese fine porcelain There are a few smallI feel like I've seen other hand brooms similar to this one, but I have not been able to find one now that I'm looking! My guess is that it is Japanese, and most definitely it was made quite some time ago with a great deal of care the wire stitching alone on this piece is quite a spectacular thing: carefully braided along one edge of the bristles, criss crossing the leather strip at the other, and then looping and spiraling all over the face of the