Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle barber's brush and the way the birds

and the way the birds are balancing at the very edges of the colorful columns upon which they perch

And then there is the great shape

6 3/8" across at lip

Something related to spinning wool

Okakura Kabuza discusses Zen and Taosim

Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle barber's brush and the way the birdsThis 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