Mid-Century Modern Bright White Ceramic Vase with Colorful, Painterly Spots lidded boxes On the lid

On the lid

would originally have been a decorative pane on a large clock

This set of three gorgeous Cinnabar-colored Burmese lacquer betel boxes makes me want to find appropriately lovely and unexpected little things to store inside

The pendant is marked with 925

Mid-Century Modern Bright White Ceramic Vase with Colorful, Painterly Spots lidded boxes On the lidSuch a luscious vase! Definitely mid century and Italian I believe (the white glazed bottom is common to Bitossi), but I am not 100% certain as it is unmarked and I have not found another like it), this vase feels rather like a second generation AbEx painting, with its painterly big black and green spots topped with drippy orange blobs here and there. These really pop against the super bright white ground, giving this piece a striking elegance in