Red Lacquer Burmese Betel Box - Ca 1920 Material - Glass It belonged to John Robert

It belonged to John Robert Honeyford (14th October 1864 - 20th March 1896) in Delhi

After the festival

scratches and the hand-punched Hindi inscription of a previous owner

and work particularly well beside a sofa or placed symmetrically on either side of a mantelpiece

34 x 34 x 14 (wxdxh cm)

Red Lacquer Burmese Betel Box - Ca 1920 Material - Glass It belonged to John RobertThis Burmese lacquer betel box is called a kun it. These boxes were multifunctional and used both as tiffin boxes and betel boxes. This Burmese lacquer box is typical of the style and has a base orange red colour and is decorated with finely etched lines and dots. Tiffin boxes were used in the old days as lunch boxes or for packaging up small snacks which the colonials called tiffin. Betel boxes were used for holding betel leaves and other ingredients