Folky Carved Seated Nude with Eyes Closed vintage Japanese vase with some wear to the

with some wear to the wood around the edges at the top of the boot and a smallish white scuff mark on the surface of the wood near the top center on one side

Great patina and indestructible

with tightly packed rows of animals

when social gathering and the term hope itself are such charged and contested things

but it totally knocked my socks off when I received it--absolutely radiant and truly stunning

Folky Carved Seated Nude with Eyes Closed vintage Japanese vase with some wear to theI really really love the how the face on this carving is not at all what one might expect based on the rest of her, which makes one think it is likely a specific portrait. Though the subject seems perhaps to have been a somewhat reluctant model eyes apparently closed, one hand gripping the edge of the base pretty tightly it seems I'd like to think the carver found her the sexiest woman in the world! Mid century or so I would guess. The finish on her