Fantastic Finely Carved Architectural Antique Whimsy Tower Rachel filled with cigarettes ready to

filled with cigarettes ready to be offered graciously to guests sitting in leather club chairs and enjoying lively conversation

It measures 5 1/2" across at lip and 3 3/4" tall

" which was featured in a nationally juried exhibition organized by the National Basketry Organization and presented at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu

It's in very good condition

which itself bore the influence of Staffordshire and Rockingham lions from the mid-18th c

Fantastic Finely Carved Architectural Antique Whimsy Tower Rachel filled with cigarettes ready toI clearly love carved chains and balls in cages, but really get excited to find unusual whimsies like this one, which I think of as a sort of fantastical architectural tower, and which seems to reflect a very singular vision on the part of its maker. Quite some carving skills they had, and what a simultaneously whimsical and very lovely thing It would be really fun to display this on a lazy susan or motorized pedestal to spin round and round forever!