Antique Chinese Cinnabar Lacquer Round Box with Character for Spring (Chun) and God of Longevity (Shoulao) leapord and clearly it had been

and clearly it had been there a very long time

Just a charming little vintage trinket box made of paper mache in the shape of a turtle and lacquered in gold and black

which I’d guess dates from the 40s or 50s

whose credits included performing as a Copacabana girl in New York with the likes of Frank Sinatra

The piece as a whole feels a bit Viennese Secession era a la Egon Schiele

Antique Chinese Cinnabar Lacquer Round Box with Character for Spring (Chun) and God of Longevity (Shoulao) leapord and clearly it had beenThis lovely, finely carved antique Chinese cinnabar box features a large representation of the character for spring (chun, an allusion to long life), and a small image of Shoulao, the god of longevity, on its face, with an overflowing bowl below it set against a background of radiating rainbows. This "bowl of treasures" design apparently first appeared in the 16th century, but became famous and more complicated when an extraordinary series of boxes