Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior Yugoslavia in Japanese--made of native clay

in Japanese--made of native clay and known for its bold designs

if facing it) and a little bit of aging to the finish on the top of the sides (which looks a bit like crackling

I'd guess)

I have not found another quite like it

Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior Yugoslavia in Japanese--made of native clayI 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