Naively Carved Marble Child's Boots porcelain bluebird I've found a very close

I've found a very close match of this lovely small lacquer string holder that describes it (with some authority) as English Victorian-era Chinoiserie

I pulled this out of a box filled with pinch pots and the like

sometimes called knife or utensil boxes

This old hair ornament is amazing

overall very very good condition

Naively Carved Marble Child's Boots porcelain bluebird I've found a very closeI'd like to think these were carved not in memorial but rather in celebration of the progression of time, like bronzed baby shoes but much more expressive, and product of much more effort on the part of their maker! The form of the boots and manner of carving is quite akin to naively carved wooden boots I have occasionally found, but the effect of carving them from marble gives them a whole different sort of gravitas and it is the combination of naive