Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers qajar lacquer box 6 7/8" t x 3

6 7/8" t x 3 5/8" d and in excellent condition

to form the scales

This lovely old checkerboard-type parquetry egg-shaped finial surely once attached to something

which I think makes them a complete set

Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers qajar lacquer box 6 7/8" t x 3I've had a couple of Alaskan Inuit polar bears carved of walrus tusk, but never a shaker, or two! I found these at Brimfield, and of course it's the faces I couldn't resist, with carefully carved teeth inside those red painted open mouths. The holes appear pretty much the same between the two of them, so perhaps both are salts, or peppers (it does look like one at least has held pepper); the bottoms easily twist off the threaded bases so one could