Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) letter knife Vessels like this one show

Vessels like this one show Mary Scheier's mastery of the wheel and admiration for Japanese and Chinese ceramics traditions

and actually a fruit--in order to make chewing betel

with some rust to the surface

there is always a face looking at you

Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) letter knife Vessels like this one showIt was suggested to me when I purchased this that it was a piece of trench art, and I think that it likely, with the canister made from a shell casing and the little chopping man cut from from some scrap. In any case, it's certainly it's own special folk art thing, and I really love this smiling but very focused looking fellow very intent on the task at hand, which looks to me to be splitting a piece of wood. Incised on both sides, and serving as a