Description
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OASM/B006 Burmese, Bamar people. Mandalay,Burma/Myanmar Ceremonial offering vessel, hsun-ok Bamboo, wood, lacquer, gold leaf and glass. 18.5 inches x 7 inches. Very good, missing some glass inserts and slight wearing of the gold leaf due to age Offering receptacles such as this one are called hsun-ok. Mandalay is known for this style with heavy inlayed glass and gilded with gold leaf. Just about every Burmese home has some form of these elegant vessels that would be used to transport and offer gifts to a monastery or temple for merit. This hsun-ok is made from a coiled basket and wood core and then layered with natural lacquer. Decorated with ribbons of lacquer using the thayo. 8 embedded cut glass “jewels”, mintzi technique, surround the lid and is mimicked on the base below. Smaller pieces of fragmented glass accent, hman zi shew, accent the rings interlaced with ribbons of thayo work. Then finished with gold leaf. The small size suggest that this vessel was used to transport money or other precious items to be presented at a temple. 19th century. |
