Super Folky 1930s Carved Cat lacquer snuff box This box is quite large

This box is quite large

“don’t forget your keys

Gabriel Kohn

and there is a sticker from the Stavaridis Gallery on Newbury Street

This early one

Super Folky 1930s Carved Cat lacquer snuff box This box is quite largeA super folky old carved cat, monogrammed and dated 1935 in black paint on its underside looking perhaps like a stray much in need of love, but also I think having a bit of a sphynx like quality, especially in profile, as if very solidly planted, guarding the gate! With deeply recessed carve outs for the ears and eyes, the latter showing some blue paint, and a rather narrowly carved nose that lends it a bit of a Siamese quality I think. Definitely a