About 17″ tall. Is this Japanese? For Ikebana? Has it been refinished or made this way? The copper wire band is loose (because the wood has shrunk?)

About 17″ tall. Is this Japanese? For Ikebana? Has it been refinished or made this way? The copper wire band is loose (because the wood has shrunk?)

Midlands South Carolina, 6:26 pm 97 degrees, feels like 109!

I’m looking for clues how to identify a lithograph… Am on the hunt for an original lithograph of Marc Chagall……… How will I tell if
