Set of Three Old Brushes vintage earrings high-gloss Japanese Natsume--or tea caddy--is

high-gloss Japanese Natsume--or tea caddy--is not an antique

while the pale blue underside of the neck has a texture suggesting waves

I think it would be especially stunning filled with a narcissus or lily

James Story

The piece as a whole feels a bit Viennese Secession era a la Egon Schiele

Set of Three Old Brushes vintage earrings high-gloss Japanese Natsume--or tea caddy--isA set of three wonderful old brushes! The long, snake like one is a very old drafting brush, used for sweeping eraser crumbs off of blueprints; it and the rectangular one (a shoeshine brush, I believe) I would guess were made in the late 19th early 20th c, with natural bristles attached via fine hand stitched wire (I think horse hair on the drafting brush, perhaps boars hair on the other.) The third, also horsehair I think and probably 1940s or so, is