Elegant Antique Black with Gold Stars Lacquer Tea Box (with Silvered Interior) carved shoe snuff box and especially the repeating thin

and especially the repeating thin black lines for brow and paws

Weighs 7 1/4 pounds

an Inuit hamlet in Nunavut

makes me think perhaps caved by a practiced decoy maker

Elegant Antique Black with Gold Stars Lacquer Tea Box (with Silvered Interior) carved shoe snuff box and especially the repeating thinA super sharp and smart looking antique lacquered box, feeling like a night sky filled with tiny golden stars. I believe this was made to function as a tea box, but whether made in Japan or in Europe I am not completely sure, late 19th early 20th I believe. Makes me think of fine Chinese export porcelain very delicately hand painted with gold stars and flourishes, and feels like just the right sort of box to place on the bedside table in a guest room