Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box vintage Haitian art and the little ones are

and the little ones are each  approx

but also lovely displayed in silhouette on open shelves

The vase features a celadon body decorated with a blue tree that branches beautifully around its perimeter and is punctuated with white moriage blossoms

(Six issues of the bi-monthly publication were produced in total before publication ceased in 1922

5 1/4" tall

Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box vintage Haitian art and the little ones areThere are some very fancy little antique shoe shaped snuff boxes out there with all sorts of inlays and flourishes, but I love the relative humility of this one (and its great silhouette), with just some sweet decorative detail carved into the pointy toe and a short heel at the other end. There is some old hand written cursive text on the bottom of the box, I believe in pencil, but it is very faint and I am unable to read it; I do believe this little