Japanese Usubata Cart Style Bronze Ikebana Flower Vase 12" Music This is a vintage Chinese

This is a vintage Chinese ceramic statue of a young woman out for a stroll with a bird cage in one hand and an umbrella in the other

This is a standard  size Soroban for basic calculations

5" tall (33 x 34

This particular lacquer is black and decorated in a makie gold bamboo with mother of pearl inlay motif

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Japanese Usubata Cart Style Bronze Ikebana Flower Vase 12" Music This is a vintage ChineseThis is a Japanese bronze Usubata (Ikebana flower vase). This vase is used in a tokonoma (alcove in a traditional Japanese home) to display flowers. It is made of a heavy bronze and has a thick cast design of a cart with a woven basket moved by two small children with a removable top filled with water for flowers. It has six point footing. The large top part easily separates from the lower vase. Typically the top is taken to a place where flowers are