Early 1900s Scrapbook Page with Great Red House Drawing and More carved wooden bird whistle I am fairly certain this

I am fairly certain this lovely small Japanese lacquer on papier mache box dates to Meiji period

were not made by prisoners to sell

has a porcelain clay body and a subtle

highly influential teacher at the Venice Art Center

There is something so satisfying to me about old handmade wooden boxes that close alone an angled edge like this

Early 1900s Scrapbook Page with Great Red House Drawing and More carved wooden bird whistle I am fairly certain thisThe poem "Winter in Old Fishkill" cut and pasted onto this old scrapbook page makes me pretty sure that's where it originated, and I found it in Hudson, so it never travelled far. It's the drawing of the red house with marvelous snake of smoke coming from the chimney that won me signed C. B., so maybe the "Ray" is labelling it as Ray's house. Nice to have the date written on the little drawing above it, too perhaps of an oil lamp? And then a hat and a