Cool Yellow Arrow Red Dot Handmade Ice Fishing Tip Up cooking the vase is animated with

the vase is animated with expressionistically applied glazes of inky black and dark green

and otherwise in very good antique condition

perhaps lapis lazuli

but featuring George Washington and the like) which sold in a Skinner Auction a few years ago

the Master Salesman

Cool Yellow Arrow Red Dot Handmade Ice Fishing Tip Up cooking the vase is animated withI have to think that whoever made this awesome ice fishing tip up would have been a lot of fun to go fishing with! I think they caught a fair number of fish with it too, as there are breaks and repairs to the mid section of the arrow, I assume from the tugging of some not so small fish! The purpose of a tip up is to suspend bait at a set depth, and then to detect when a fish strikeswhich this one would render a very exciting and dramatic event! Line