Antique Black Lacquer Snuff/Trinket Box with Silver "K" celadon Cards measure approx

Cards measure approx

which some might call bird food

which I love for its delicate spiky texture

but I have a of feeling that it was done by someone known as it has a lot of confidence about it

this one with a more dense and saturated concentration of elongated triangular forms

Antique Black Lacquer Snuff/Trinket Box with Silver "K" celadon Cards measure approxJust a simple one, but a lovely one, with nice lines and a silver K on the underside of the lid, which of course makes this Kate like it all the more. I believe a snuff box but a slightly larger scale one, which makes it useful one for holding rings or earrings or pills or whatever. Lacquer over wood I think rather than papier mache as it is harder and thinner walled. One can never have too many pretty little boxes, I say! 4 x 1 5 8 x 1 5 8 t and in