Burmese Yun-De Lacquer Four Tier Wedding Basket / Stacking Boxes arts and crafts watering can including at the Art Institute

including at the Art Institute of Chicago

titled "It Belonged to My Mother

from a dealer in Maine

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gives it the look of leaded glass

Burmese Yun-De Lacquer Four Tier Wedding Basket / Stacking Boxes arts and crafts watering can including at the Art InstituteI'm always on the lookout for Burmese Yun de lacquer, with finely incised designs hand done, layer by layer but this is the first wedding basket I've found. It is comprised of four tiers, each a box or tray, onto which the one above it snugly stacks. Three of the them are removable, as is the lid on the very top, while the bottom tier is attached to the frame, which doubles as a handle, by which the whole thing can be carried. And indeed it would have