Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank horsehair clothes brush This lovely art nouveau style

This lovely art nouveau style free hand “hearts and vines” iridescent glass vessel reminds me of the miraculous capacities of blown glass—what a tiny wonder

designed by Grete Prytz Kittelsen for Cathrineholm

and which he noted on the drawing

I wish I knew this history of this wonderful

a studio potter born in Boston in 1936

Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank horsehair clothes brush This lovely art nouveau styleI've searched but haven't found another little shoe like this one perhaps because, if it is indeed an antique coin bank as I think it is, most of them were smashed long ago to retrieve the coins inside! It seems possible that untying the lace would allow it to come apart some to empty it, but the ribbon is so old and brittle I am afraid to try it! Clearly it was made in two halves, so it would seem they might split apart, but the two sides now seem