Hand-painted Porcelain Ashtray with Pipe and Matches incised lacquer box Small questions cards 2 1/2"

Small questions cards 2 1/2" x 1 1/2"

but best would probably be to mount it to a backing sheet and then get it in a frame

but I'm really not certain

a pencil written message from a S

I believe this carving has some age to it

Hand-painted Porcelain Ashtray with Pipe and Matches incised lacquer box Small questions cards 2 1/2"I've rarely met an image of a pipe I didn't like to me, they're all Magritte ian fellows speaking to The Treachery of Images! It doesn't hurt that a pipe's a pretty great looking thing, even more so when emitting a trail of smoke and accompanied by a two toned green book of matches tipped in orange! I'd be more inclined to hang this one the wall than use it as an ashtray, but it would be a fun one to set out for pipe smoking company, and or to