Early 20th C Red Chinese Cloisonne Box with Floral Design tins (I can just picture Ernest

(I can just picture Ernest Hemingway bringing this back from one of his African hunting trips

9 7/8" long x 2 5/8" wide x 1" deep

who I think quite charmed the artist as he sketched them nearly 200 years ago

created more than a hundred years prior (in 1898

Perhaps best of all are her little crocheted booties

Early 20th C Red Chinese Cloisonne Box with Floral Design tins (I can just picture ErnestA nice hinged Chinese cloisonn box, 1920s or so, finely done rich red with flowers on all sides against a gold labyrinthine design, and with a terrific blue scalloped border and interior. Hinges are in great shape and it stands squarely on four round brass feet. Cloisonn refers to the technique of creating designs on metal vessels with colored glass paste placed within enclosures made of bronze or brass wires, which have been bent or hammered into the