Magritte-esque Vintage Tabacco Jar with Hand-Painted Pipe in Relief! dyed While designed for storing chewing

While designed for storing chewing betel

and how useful for so many purposes

it is also just a great little object to have sitting around

to the bold orange and black leaf design

which features an image by Utagawa Hiroshige of people on a bridge with mountains in the background

Magritte-esque Vintage Tabacco Jar with Hand-Painted Pipe in Relief! dyed While designed for storing chewingI can't look at this fabulous vessel without thinking of Magritte's Ceci nest pas un pipe! I think its a vintage tobacco jar, which likely once had a lid, but which now I think would make a pretty great vase. Its very nicely made, with the hand painted pipe rendered in relief, additional relief patterns up the sides and around the neck, and a mark that looks sort of like a C on the bottom. While Id like to imagine the maker of the vessel had Magrittes