Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box hand-painted paper fan 8 1/4" t x 5

8 1/4" t x 5 3/16" in diameter

from the hand-marbled paper cover

Best is that it is in fact a bit of a failure--there are a couple of splits where the wood of the sides meets the top

No chips or cracks or issues

) I’m pretty sure I’m making this up

Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box hand-painted paper fan 8 1/4" t x 5This is quite an old box, I believe earlyish 19th c. if not older, and quite a wonderful one I think, carved out from one piece of wood, with a great deal of effort invested in decorative carving on the long sides cross hatching on one and a more complex pattern of chip carving on the other. I love the raised pull end of the slide lid, which looks rather like a pillow at the head of a bed, with a piece of iron stretched over the top looking rather