Vintage Japan Wooden Figural Salt Pepper Shakers Hand Painted Bead Earrings MCM For Sale

Charming vintage pair of hand-painted wooden figural salt and pepper shakers, likely dating to the mid-century era. Features wonderfully expressive painted faces, colorful clothing and unusual dangling bead earrings on both figures.
Turned-wood construction with original-style bottom stoppers and dispensing holes at the tops. The pair shows considerable authentic vintage character, including paint loss, surface wear, finish crazing and discoloration consistent with age. Please examine photos carefully for condition.
An unusual collectible pair with a striking mid-century folk-art appearance.
Note: These figures use racial caricature imagery typical of some mid-20th-century decorative objects. They are being offered as vintage collectibles.

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