Sweet and Unusual Old Carved Boot Pipe Bowl! Chinese lacquer Red Orange-Orange-Yellow Orange) with fine

Red Orange-Orange-Yellow Orange) with fine graphite lines connecting the dots and noting the colors

Then this intricately constructed three mast ship

which about midway between Albany and Hudson

There is one small area of loss on the back along the edge where one hinge would attach the lid to the body

and the cutouts forming heart patterns at the center of the handle

Sweet and Unusual Old Carved Boot Pipe Bowl! Chinese lacquer Red Orange-Orange-Yellow Orange) with fineA very sweet old carved wooden boot, because I think one can never have too many carved boots and shoes but then this one is a pipe bowl, to boot! About as basic as it gets in terms of pipe bowls just a hole in the heel that goes through to the interior but with lovingly incised detailing at the toe, around the sides, and up the front as lacing holes. 3" l x 1 3 8" w x 1 13 16" t. Late 19th very early 20th c, nice dry patina, good condition.