Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue canton some partial

some partial

I'd guess fairly early 20th century

or just a great looking little display

and also for a carved boot or shoe (including boot-shaped vesta)

I love how this 1980s “Java Jig” porcelain sugar bowl by California ceramicist Michael Lambert (b

Haunting Old Carved (Bedpost?) Doll in Orange and Blue canton some partialI'm guessing that the leather strip threaded through the cheeks of this old primitively carved figure once formed a loop by which it hung, but I found it like this, and think it lends a whole 'nother level of character and drama as it hangs: in part evincing a mustache, but to me feeling rather more like streaming tears. And while it seems this could be a bedpost doll, to me it now has all of the presence of a fetish doll, as if holding otherworldly