Japanese Horse Roulette in Turned Wooden Box with Great Text on Bottom lenticular It is the perfect shade

It is the perfect shade of green--somewhere between olive and kelly--with a fabulous pop of orange around the lid

with what looks like just a few bristles missing near the very center

with its round body and long thin neck

1960s Bitossi Rosenthal Netter vase makes me think of when the grass first starts to turn green after the long winter

Japanese Horse Roulette in Turned Wooden Box with Great Text on Bottom lenticular It is the perfect shadeI cannot resist objects like this, which wear the stories of their lives on their sleeves or bottoms, as is the case here. The thing itself is great, and a rare one: a very sweet old turned wood box with terrific galloping red horse on top and roulette wheel inside, which spins super fast, rolling the metal ball around until it lands in one of the recesses, marking the winning horse. One assumes the five little wooden chips stamped with horses 1 5 are