Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle tin tea caddy Beautifully made

Beautifully made

There are some wonderful ones out there

This complete set of five

evincing the sun or a rainbow and turning the whole plate into a landscape

but I think is much better--far looser (it looks positively abstract from certain angles)

Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle tin tea caddy Beautifully madeThis is a lovely small Burmese lacquer box decorated with yun de incised decoration, painstakingly executed by hand, one color at a time. The design features what I believe are guardian lions ("chinthe"; the equivalent to "foo dogs" in Chinese culture) repeating around the perimeter of both top and bottom halves of the box. The solid orange red lacquer handle at the center of the top makes this box particularly nice, with a circle of fine lines around