Burmese Yun-De Lacquer Four Tier Wedding Basket / Stacking Boxes arts and crafts watering can and what incredibly beautiful objects

and what incredibly beautiful objects I think they are

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titled "It Belonged to My Mother

Hand-drawn in blue ink (a few small smears on the leaves of the branch on which the birds sit make it clear this is drawn rather than printed) on cardstock weight board

including at the Art Institute of Chicago

Burmese Yun-De Lacquer Four Tier Wedding Basket / Stacking Boxes arts and crafts watering can and what incredibly beautiful objectsI'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