Pretty Hand-painted Cream and Blue Handled Vase, Presumed Mid-C Scandanavian carving of kissing couple or boxes--I believe this is

or boxes--I believe this is a few sets combined long ago

no more than what it needs to be and seemingly perfectly suited to go for a float--and I find that flat expanse of chocolate brown paint weirdly but truly satisfying

who has been parsing them out a few at a time

and ferociously bared teeth

Pretty Hand-painted Cream and Blue Handled Vase, Presumed Mid-C Scandanavian carving of kissing couple or boxes--I believe this isI suppose it's possible that this vessel once had a lid, but even if it did, I at least would stash it away and just use this as a vase. There's no mark on it, but it certainly feels mid century Scandanavian, and I'd think Danish specifically. Just pretty. I might fill it with tall grasses or cattails for winter, and then a few first branches of forsythia or redbud in early spring. Very good vintage condition, no chips or cracks. As documented, there