Smiling Face Antique Painting on Silk tabletop objects deep and even basketweave texture

deep and even basketweave texture

This wonderful Burmese box is a lovely green with finely detailed flowers and vines incised in silver

warm and radiant

and became known for finely rendered

8 1/4" l x 3 5/8" t x 3 3/8" w

Smiling Face Antique Painting on Silk tabletop objects deep and even basketweave textureSuch a funny, cheery face! It was painted on silk, then very carefully wrapped around a piece of round board, pinned tight along the edges all the way around. It did have a ribbon with a little hanging loop attached to the top, but it immediately crumbled in my hands as soon as I touched it not too surprising as I'd think this is well over a hundred years old. I think of it kind of like a smiling moon, and might hang it high on the wall to watch over