Earlier 20th Century Japanese Painted Treen Apple with Horse Roulette Inside hand-embrodiered Perfect now for holding--or delivering

Perfect now for holding--or delivering

and detailed on both sides with ears and eyes and brows

base 2 5/8" w x 1 3/8"d

12 1/4 t x 14 3/8 w x 4” d overall

I'm trying hard to get tone/coloration on my photos of photographs as close to actual as possible

Earlier 20th Century Japanese Painted Treen Apple with Horse Roulette Inside hand-embrodiered Perfect now for holding--or deliveringI just can't resist these treen apples, each its own thing based on when it was made and the life it has lived, with variations in size and paint too. Many housed games or miniature tea sets horse roulette is my favorite. And the one time owner of this one appears to have been French, with handwritten notes on the roulette wheel, and on the horse tokens too, declaring each to either represent rouge or noir (red or black) making it more like a game of