Incredible Pair of Ornate Antique Double Ball in Cage Whimsies, with Stand vintage Japanese planter If I saw this house

If I saw this house at full scale

This is a charming antique calling card

which features a buffalo emerging from the side of the round shield in a manner so similar to this that I wonder if this plate was directly inspired by it

4 1/8" tall

This is a handmade wooden Alebrije

Incredible Pair of Ornate Antique Double Ball in Cage Whimsies, with Stand vintage Japanese planter If I saw this houseThese I do believe are just about the most spectacular whimsies I've seen, and certainly had in my possession. Each was carved from one piece of wood, with either two or three small balls inside of each ones two cagesthe taller with carved fists at either end, the shorter with crosshatched patterns that for some reason remind me of pineapples! Ornately detailed all over, they make me think of bons bons rolled in fancy paper and cinched with bows at