Antique Handmade Book Box with Interior Portrait man in box Burns who signed it

Burns who signed it

though I have not found another in this blue and peachy yellow glaze combo

or really for making an occasion of lighting anything

I just loved the proportions on this one

which I'll try to do before shipping

Antique Handmade Book Box with Interior Portrait man in box Burns who signed itI rarely meet a book shaped thing I don't like, and this feels like something of an example of not judging a book by its cover! I'm thinking there may once have been a picture of some sort adhered to the outside cover, which shows a bare spot surrounded by red paint now and perhaps that picture functioned as a sort of counterpart to the portrait print of woman in large plumed hat inside; my guess is that it turned this book box into a c. 1800 French