Curious Tiny Gilded Fish Head Vessel carved wooden deers The holes are the right

The holes are the right size for standard pens and pencils

and look even better in person (there is a little glare on a few of the photos

but everything about it suggests his work to me--in which case I am selling it as quite a bargain price

but the wheel turns smoothy and it seems ready to be put to use baking something delicious

Curious Tiny Gilded Fish Head Vessel carved wooden deers The holes are the rightSo curious! And to my eye quite a little jewel of a thing. I know nothing about it or where it came from, but it looks to me perhaps to be made of porcelain, as there is a bit of white showing though in a couple of spots near the mouth and the weight and feel seems right. And certainly it appears that an actual fish head was used as a mold, as the detail is quite realistic. I am not at all sure of the age, and have not found another out there like it.