Smiling Face Antique Painting on Silk tabletop objects This wonderful Burmese box is

This wonderful Burmese box is a lovely green with finely detailed flowers and vines incised in silver

and holds four black lacquered coasters inside

which vary greatly in terms of degree of darkening during firing

and became known for finely rendered

8 1/4" l x 3 5/8" t x 3 3/8" w

Smiling Face Antique Painting on Silk tabletop objects This wonderful Burmese box isSuch a funny, cheery face! It was painted on silk, then very carefully wrapped around a piece of round board, pinned tight along the edges all the way around. It did have a ribbon with a little hanging loop attached to the top, but it immediately crumbled in my hands as soon as I touched it not too surprising as I'd think this is well over a hundred years old. I think of it kind of like a smiling moon, and might hang it high on the wall to watch over