Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle Canton porcelain box and makes me want to

and makes me want to send more handwritten letters in order that I might receive some back to open with it

and the print seems in very good condition

The hand-painted design--really a drawing on clay--reminds me of a  map with shape-shifting land masses

This may just be my favorite little box ever

and then the point at which the surface of the liquid touches the stem of the hydrometer gives a measure of its relative density

Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle Canton porcelain box and makes me want toThis 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