Marvelous Old Hand-drawn Cutout Paper Soldiers Mounted to Wood thick glaze 5 1/4" in diameter x

5 1/4" in diameter x 3 3/8" tall and to my eye beautifully aged

Box measures Box measures 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" x 1/2

painted bubblegum pink with these black diamonds all down its back

The small vessel is made of high-fire porcelain coated with brown slip and incised

probably 80 or 90 years ago

Marvelous Old Hand-drawn Cutout Paper Soldiers Mounted to Wood thick glaze 5 1/4" in diameter xThese are among my favorite finds ever, and exactly the sort of thing I am forever searching for, bringing total joy at their singular existence, and marvel at their tender, labor intensive execution. It seems to me the uniforms could be c. late 19th century US Army, but I think look rather more like WWI French, and those mustached profiles do look rather French to me. Each one was hand drawn in pencil and colored pencil or crayon on scraps of stiff