Delicate and Intense Antique Cased Watercolor Portrait of Young Child yun-de lacquer box and really handy for all

and really handy for all sorts of things

as I've seen a few other with the same progressions from 1-10 and 10-100

when closed 11 1/4" tall x 1 1/4" wide x 1 9/16" deep

and certainly it lends itself to imagining life inside these cliff-top castles

Delicate and Intense Antique Cased Watercolor Portrait of Young Child yun-de lacquer box and really handy for allThis to me very much has the ethereal and otherworldly qualities of a daguerreotype of a painted portrait, though it is a miniature watercolor, unmediated by a camera. Such a fantastic intensity achieved through the most delicate means barely there but completely present, and with the deep blue of the eyes cast to one side making it seem that this child is witnessing something quite phenomenal. Mid 19th c. I believe, better in person, and to my