Perfect Antique Yellow Painted Clay Billiard Ball Chinese painting on rice paper I didn't know when I

I didn't know when I found him (at the estate of a widely-collecting world traveler from Gloucester

is also complete

with the handwritten card on one detailing the sizes

I believe this box would have been used to store tobacco

but I love most every detail of him head to toe

Perfect Antique Yellow Painted Clay Billiard Ball Chinese painting on rice paper I didn't know when IJust so pretty. Quite an old one, made of clay, the perfect pale lemon yellow, and with no number at the center of the white circle to identify it , so it rather transcends its intended function. I don't think I've ever seen a true clay one of this size, and to my eye it's just formally perfect, and nice and heavy and satisfying in the hand. 1 7 8 d and in very good condition, some general light surface cracking as evident, all to the good.