Beautiful Double-Sided Antique Walnut Make Do Gameboard large wood bowl methods of construction and arrangement

methods of construction and arrangement

This is a lovely small Burmese lacquer box decorated with “yun-de” incised decoration

there is wear and some tearing around the corners of the backing sheet

the slightly darker ones and the painted ones are almost paper thin—but all are bone

Beautiful Double-Sided Antique Walnut Make Do Gameboard large wood bowl methods of construction and arrangementI don't think photos fully do justice to this really lovely, very elegant old game board, made long ago from a walnut table leaf. On the front side, the white paint against the smooth dark wood reads almost as silver, with beautifully hand written numbers, 1 32, at the top left corner of each square. On the reverse, the checkerboard is oriented horizontally, again with hand numbered squares, with the paint here reading almost pale peach. Of course I