Excellent Old Painted Wood Nesting / Stacking Box Set with Jointed Corners, Beautifully Aged pale blue glazed both as tokens of Taoism

both as tokens of Taoism (shooing away evils) and with the practical function of brushing away the flies

Insect bites

8 11/16” x 7 1/8”

It is 100% the dense field of tiny hand-painted gold stars around the perimeter that sold me on this tole painted tray and scissors-style candle snuffer/wick trimmer set--wonderful

just a few losses on the back side

Excellent Old Painted Wood Nesting / Stacking Box Set with Jointed Corners, Beautifully Aged pale blue glazed both as tokens of TaoismI am forever searching for these hard to find, it's a very happy day when I do, and whenever I list a set they are usually the first thing sold. The paint and the wear is important though the paint on earlier sets like this softens and wears away, rather than chips off I'll never buy a set where the latter is the case! It is possible this set once included a larger red box, but there's five now, with the orange the largest. Jointed corners, great