Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb hand-painted Japanese wall pocket I am listing additional examples

I am listing additional examples from the same portfolio in a separate posting

but I rather like the idea of a silently barking dog

so I can't say with 100% certainty--so I am pricing it in relation to its beauty and fineness rather than its pedigree

though I’d say she’s at a whole 'nother level of special

these are really gorgeous things

Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb hand-painted Japanese wall pocket I am listing additional examplesI've fallen in love with more than a few hetchels, used for combing flax, but to my eye none are as beautiful or sculpturally satisfying as this one, simply a long, hand hewn piece of wood with carved teeth at one end and definitely it was used as there is residue caught between the teeth. I found it in upstate New York, and though I remain terrible at wood identification it certainly appears to be some type of evergreen. It was cut somewhat