Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle Canton porcelain box This may just be my

This may just be my favorite little box ever

considering the precarious perch where I found it

and indeed

and the print seems in very good condition

Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle Canton porcelain box This may just be myThis 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