Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle english 10 1/8" long x 1

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

Another example of the simpler the better and more beautiful: this is about as straight-forward a wall-hanging mail (or anything) holder as one could conceive

or at the corner of the desk

) I believe this particular basket may have been made by Marjorie Abbey Battise

Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle english 10 1/8" long x 1This 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