Lot 265: A Collection of Decorative Items Including a Bamboo and Wood Bird Sculpture and Ceramic Boot-Form Vessel

An assortment of decorative items comprising a stylized folk art bird sculpture, a ceramic boot-form vessel, a miniature boot, and a mortar and pestle. The bird sculpture is constructed with a carved and painted wooden head, a flexible metal coil spring neck, and a hollowed wooden body containing multiple wooden eggs in varied finishes, supported on wire legs. The lot includes a ceramic vessel modelled as a boot with a dark brown high-gloss glaze. Also present is a miniature black leather boot with a single lace. Completing the collection is a small mortar and pestle set in cream-coloured ceramic.