Thanks @2manybooks. Thanks @komokwa.
I think it has some age. Prob not antique, but older than 20-30 years, at least. The incised cuts / designs look very much like the style and...
A broken basket is always a broken basket, but at $18 I can't not buy this large 21" wide basket. Based on American Indian Baskets: Building and...
Interesting idea....
Thanks. I agree that the layering of typical lacquerware, produced by numerous application / drying cycles, then cut into revealing those layers,...
That sticker is coming up as having been made Toyo Toki, a Japanese ceramics company.
Wow! So that's about as rock-solid a match as can be. Thanks for gettin' it out and helping.
Makes sense-- thank you!
Yeah-- I see some online described as such, but I think cinnabar is by its very nature red. So...???
This is one of those Chinese lacquerware boxes. The material is kinda soft, dull, and relatively heavy. It is not the more recent (and common)...
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Interesting. Thanks for the lead @crowleys .
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