Japanese Painted Papier Mache Girl With Lion-Dog Vintage Tabletop Sculpture cat box and very fun to wear

and very fun to wear

wonderfully detailed small vase is incised and sculpted to resemble the trunk of a tree

it would be great for both indoor and outdoor use

which I have not tried to polish

Among my very favorite tiny animal in the Critical EYE collection is this wonderful Inuit hand-carved polar bear

Japanese Painted Papier Mache Girl With Lion-Dog Vintage Tabletop Sculpture cat box and very fun to wearThis charming papier mch sculpture of Asian girl and lion dog I believe is mid century Japanese. The hand painted details are really wonderful, from the pink cheeks and detailed bib of the little girl to, especially, the mane and ears of her lion dog companion, a mythological creature considered a guardian figure in Japanese culture and a popular subject in Japanese papier mch.