Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle english What a brilliant and beautiful

What a brilliant and beautiful box

4" wide x 6

or at the corner of the desk

or really any manner of other little things

10 1/8" long x 1 1/4" tall and wide

Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle english What a brilliant and beautifulThis 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