Marvelous Old Folk Art Noah's ark Animals, Zebra and Giraffe - A Pair beautiful Japanese lacquer box with copper and pink surface

with copper and pink surface decoration on its interior over a reactive creamy glaze

such as these from Transportes del Norte

standing for its maker

comes  from a volume of Zeitschrift für populäre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy)

and would guess it dates to the 1930s or 40s

Marvelous Old Folk Art Noah's ark Animals, Zebra and Giraffe - A Pair beautiful Japanese lacquer box with copper and pink surfaceThese are from a group of wonderful old handmade animals I found this past weekend in New Hampshire, I believe from a Noah's Ark set, though I'm not entirely sure all from the same set. I've divided them into a few pairs, and thought these two pattern intensive, smiling creatures and habitat sharers in real life a perfect match. The giraffe has jointed legs as well as nails for horns and tail (painted with the same pattern detail as the rest of him),