Black and Gold Lacquer Antique Chinoiserie String Holder Box baseball player carving its face looks to me

its face looks to me just like that of a big kitten

Upon moving to Nova Scotia

exuberant stubble

This sort of chainstitch embroidery

Really just perfect

Black and Gold Lacquer Antique Chinoiserie String Holder Box baseball player carving its face looks to meI've found a very close match of this lovely small lacquer string holder that describes it (with some authority) as English Victorian era Chinoiserie, late 19th or very early 20th century. Made of lacquered papier mache, it features wonderful gold toned decoration, different on all sides, depicting figures engaged in a variety of scenes, including one figure smoking from a pipe, another holding a fan, another reading, and another who appears to be