Scarce and Notable Richard Saar Mid-Century Cigarette Box with Figural Tray Top northwest coast Easy to pop a cork

Easy to pop a cork in this and use it as a jug to take on picnics and to football games

Framed as found: 10 1/8" x 8 11/16 x 3/4

which has acquired a warm dry wood patina

I'd be pretty confident there were once many more of these figures and related bits

probably torn from a larger page long ago

Scarce and Notable Richard Saar Mid-Century Cigarette Box with Figural Tray Top northwest coast Easy to pop a corkThough this struck me as vaguely familiar when I found it, and very clearly mid century, I didn't know about Richard Saar and Saar Ceramics but am very happy to now, including to know that Saar was the husband of artist Betye Saar and father of Alison and Lezley! Launched in Lawndale, California and soon relocated to a small Quonset hut in El Segundo, Saar Ceramics studio operated from 1949 to 1962 producing tableware, tiles, and figural sculptures