Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters tall copper box as pictured--minor

as pictured--minor

This type of Burmese lacquer-ware

The perfect addition to a collection of wonderful old brushes--or just a lovely object to set somewhere or hang on the wall

with the letter and numbers I assume referring to the bottle type (and there are more handwritten notations on the back side

I believe dating to the 19th century

Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters tall copper box as pictured--minorThere are times when I am simply incapable of not buying something, and rationalize that even if no one else falls in love with it, I'll be happy just to keep it for myself. Like this gloriously hand painted desk, signed on the back "To my son, Da Mumma" and dated 1940. It's large to be a lap desk, but would be a handy thing to stash all of one's stuff inside in order to move from table to table, wherever one want might to work, or draw, or paint, and