Antique Turned Wooden Yarn Spindles elegant treen box 9 1/4" long x 10"

9 1/4" long x 10" tall x 4" wide

This little cast-iron snail sculpture is a wonderful thing to hold in your hand: weighty and substantial

This is a striking pair of Japanese style faceted pottery cups with what I believe is a Yunomi form

Late 19th or very early 20th century I believe

I think it's a pretty striking object to have around

Antique Turned Wooden Yarn Spindles elegant treen box 9 1/4" long x 10"I find these old turned and colorfully dyed wooden spindles, used for hand spinning yarn, so lovely that I just couldn't pass them by, and thought they might still be useful for holding yarn, or as tools of some other sort, or just stuck in a vessel to admire! I'd guess the colorful banding, on both ends in most cases, had a correspondence to the yarns they one held, and would guess the color comes from the same dyes used to color the wool. 19th