Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior Yugoslavia I'd guess)

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I've really fallen in love with the relatively simple but dynamic surface decoration on traditional Acoma pottery

I have not found another quite like it

Brushes each measure 8" long x 2 1/2" tall

with just a few very tiny dark spots

Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior Yugoslavia I'd guess)I am amazed by the fineness of so many Chinese antiques, and the more I look at real Chinese Cinnabar carving, the more amazed I am. This unusually large box would have been entirely carved by hand, then coated with many successive layers of lacquer. Cinnabar takes its name from the red mineral, a form of mercury sulfide, used to dye the lacquer (while the other colors have sometimes been used, red is most common, most likely due to the association of