Asian-themed Tole Painted Antique Tin Spice Box with Six Canisters glass creamer and sugar I've found a few old

I've found a few old wooden boxes of this specific shape and just love them

or someone else to invent a new use for them entirely

with a dark red lacquer interior

The ferrule (the wooden part to which the bristles are attached) is 4" wide and 1 1/2" deep

from from Indonesian puppets to mid-century studio pottery

Asian-themed Tole Painted Antique Tin Spice Box with Six Canisters glass creamer and sugar I've found a few oldOne sees a fair number of old hand painted (tole, also called Japanned) tin spice boxes like this, but rarely have I seen one painted so elaborately and with such care as this one; opening it for the first time to find those six great spices boxes inside was a very happy surprise! I especially love that large, gold painted flying bird on the corner of the box, and then that bee flying over water lilies on one of the spice containers. While still great