Antique Black and Gold Painted Lock Shaped Ball in Cage Carved Whimsy 1950s Japanese toy though it is a miniature

though it is a miniature watercolor

Like stone fruit and bone dominoes

Signed on the bottom "Lapid Israel" and "D"

it looks to me as if it was cut out from a larger painting

Antique Black and Gold Painted Lock Shaped Ball in Cage Carved Whimsy 1950s Japanese toy though it is a miniatureA great old one, and an unusual one for the old black and mellow gold paint on it, with painted designs, including several X's, giving it a bit of a mystical feel, as if it once dangled at the end of a chain used in secret ceremonies who knows?! Nicely carved with a very round ball in the cage and a great old alligatored surface now. Good for hanging from a nail on the wall, setting somewhere, or wearing around one's neck as a dramatic pendant! 5 3 8"