Antique Victorian Black Forest Carved Match Stick or Toothpick Holder, Foliate Ostrich taupe and blues and nothing

taupe and blues and nothing at all like the colors that emerge once the kiln has melted the enamel powders into the thick glassine finish that some mistake for porcelain

You can see it in our images

he wears the long powdered wig of a avacate (attorney or judge) or simply a courtier in the time of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

and the whole thing just glows

Antique Victorian Black Forest Carved Match Stick or Toothpick Holder, Foliate Ostrich taupe and blues and nothingDelightful antique Victorian to Edwardian era Black Forest hand carved match or toothpick holder in the form of a wheat or grain bushel on an attached base tray with ornate basket weave styling and grapes or berries & foliage on the vine! A relatively mundane use I guess but we all do need or use matches at the hearth or perhaps toothpicks in the kitchen and I can't think of a better receptacle that this little treasure. The oval base tray is 7. 5" x