Antique Carved Wood Durian Shaped Box with Interior Lacquer and Gilding vintage ceramics smooth surface

smooth surface

to the jauntily cocked handle

who made everything from desk and smoking accessories to corkscrews to bookends to pretzel holders to candlesticks

and signed JJP

The piece measures 7” long x 6

Antique Carved Wood Durian Shaped Box with Interior Lacquer and Gilding vintage ceramics smooth surfaceThis may just be my favorite little box ever. It took me a while, but thanks to the help of Instagram followers! I have now learned that it is shaped like a Durian fruit, native to Southeast Asia, and I have now found a few examples of others similar all quite extraordinary (and quite precious!) It seems these may be specifically native to the town of Palembang in Sumatra, Indonesia. The quality and wear to that lacquer makes me fairly certain it is