Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box hand-painted paper fan No chips or cracks or

No chips or cracks or issues

Bowl/vase measures 3 1/4" in diameter x 2 3/4" t

Best is that it is in fact a bit of a failure--there are a couple of splits where the wood of the sides meets the top

from the hand-marbled paper cover

but the green and cream still pop

Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box hand-painted paper fan No chips or cracks orThis is quite an old box, I believe earlyish 19th c. if not older, and quite a wonderful one I think, carved out from one piece of wood, with a great deal of effort invested in decorative carving on the long sides cross hatching on one and a more complex pattern of chip carving on the other. I love the raised pull end of the slide lid, which looks rather like a pillow at the head of a bed, with a piece of iron stretched over the top looking rather