Interesting Small Knotted Horsehair Brush basket with canoe with a few light stains

with a few light stains but very minor

but am not 100% certain of that attribution

I'm not over my obsession with old clay marbles

her dark dress

if not actual execution

Interesting Small Knotted Horsehair Brush basket with canoe with a few light stainsI think it is possible that this is a fly whisk or a horsetail whisk brush, which from what I understand are common to Asia, both as tokens of Taoism (shooing away evils) and with the practical function of brushing away the flies, mosquitoes. etc. But I am not certain! What made me fall in love with it is the construction, with each small bunch of horsehair carefully knotted onto what appears to be thread, which wraps around what appears to be a thin