Hand-Carved Wooden Man with Hidden Tools! charming bear This spectacular Japanese hand-painted ceramic

This spectacular Japanese hand-painted ceramic hanging planter

This Garuda-shaped Indonesian nutcracker

leaf and bird design may the most exquisite among them

Approximately 5" in diameter x 2 3/4" tall

I don't think this coffee pot has ever been used

Hand-Carved Wooden Man with Hidden Tools! charming bear This spectacular Japanese hand-painted ceramicThis guy may just be my new very favorite thing! And I have not been able to find another like him out there anywhere. When I found him, I quickly realized his carved wooden head pulled out of his body to reveal a knife attached, which I thought might be used as a letter opener, but it was not until I began photographing him that I realized his legs, terminating in those fabulous boots, pulled out as well one to reveal a pencil and the other an ink