Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle tin tea caddy Beautifully made

Beautifully made

and possibly Middle Eastern

but I think is much better--far looser (it looks positively abstract from certain angles)

with bright blue body and black and yellow wings

carefully braided black thread hair

Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle tin tea caddy Beautifully madeThis 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