Set of Three Old Brushes green pitcher making the vase feel akin

making the vase feel akin to a three-dimensional woodblock print

I am uncertain as to whether it is bronze cast or iron cast with bronze finish (it is quite heavy for its size)

I had never seen one of these planters before

At some point it must have been glued to a base or part of some larger scenario

Set of Three Old Brushes green pitcher making the vase feel akinA set of three wonderful old brushes! The long, snake like one is a very old drafting brush, used for sweeping eraser crumbs off of blueprints; it and the rectangular one (a shoeshine brush, I believe) I would guess were made in the late 19th early 20th c, with natural bristles attached via fine hand stitched wire (I think horse hair on the drafting brush, perhaps boars hair on the other.) The third, also horsehair I think and probably 1940s or so, is