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Burmese Lacquer Hsun-ok Offering Bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1900 item# 1106224 (stock# 57-29)
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This 19th century Burmese lacquer offering bowl, called a hsun-ok, differs in size from the typical spired vessels used to carry offerings of food to Burma’s Buddhist monasteries. This one is smaller—20 inches in height and 9 inches in diameter, while the average size of a hsun-ok is about 30 inches tall and 15 inches in diameter. With its dramatic shape and intense red hue, it is every bit the same compelling cultural artifact as its larger brothers, and hsun-ok offering vessels in this small ...click for details

Burmese Lacquer Zodiac Signs Box Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1910 item# 1066740 (stock# 57-65)
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A lacquer box from early 20th century Burma has intricate drawings of the 12 Burmese zodiac signs incised around the container, and eight cardinal signs for the days of the week around on the top of the lid. Also on the lid are two inscriptions in Burmese, one with the wish “be rich” and the other “be healthy.” The eight signs for the days of the week reflect the Burmese custom of using two signs for Wednesday, one for the morning and one for the afternoon. The 12 Burmese astrological signs fo ...click for details

Burmese Black Lacquer Offering Bowl Hsun Kwet Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1910 item# 1024442 (stock# 57-70)
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This early 20th century five-piece Buddhist offering bowl is a lacquerware design unique to Burma. It is from a classification of vessels called “hsun ok,” containers that were used to present offerings of food at Buddhist monasteries, an especially important rite in the practice of Buddhism in Burma. The particular design of this one, know as an “ok kwet,” or a “hsun kwet,” was practical for that purpose, incorporating three bowls and two trays into a pleasingly rounded shape crowned with a st ...click for details

Large Shan Red and Black Lacquer Footed bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1910 item# 929783 (stock# 63-14)
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An especially handsome lacquer bowl, called a “kwet,” is from the Shan people, a southeast Asian tribal group living primarily in northeast Burma. Similar Shan bowls, though not identical to this one, are pictured in a book from the British Museum Press entitled “Visions from the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer” by Isaacs and Blurton, on pages 183 and 184, where they are labeled with the spelling “khwet.” This bowl has an inscription on the bottom that is difficult to decipher but it ...click for details

Pagan Lacquer Betel Box with Maker's Name Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1920 item# 922753 (stock# 63-29)
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Delicately incised yun designs on a lacquer betel box from the Burmese city of Pagan depict scenes of five elegantly dressed courtiers, each portrayed within a distinctive and elaborate portal. The name of the artisan, Ko Sein Maung, is incised in one ribbon-like cartouche, and his locale, Pagan Dikesu, in another. The wish, chantha basage (may you be rich), appears in a third cartouche. The container has three parts—a deep lid, a high base and a fitted tray. It is designed to retain freshness i ...click for details

Incised Lacquer Burmese Betel Box Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1900 item# 898500 (stock# 63-30)
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A late 19th century lacquer betel box from Burma is incised in an intricate pattern called “yok-thei,” with tiny dancers swirling through vegetal scrolling. The small design, primarily red and green, is punctuated with black and green circles that look like launching pads for the flying stylized dancers. (For a betel box with a similar yok-thei pattern, see color plate # 41 in “Burmese Crafts Past and Present,” by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Oxford University Press, 1994.) Many inventive designs done wit ...click for details

Intha Lacquer Offering Stand of Inle Lake Origin Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1900 item# 896352 (stock# 63-23)
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An offering stand, or “kalat,” used by the Intha people who live the villages around Inle Lake in one of the Shan states in northeastern Burma, is from the late 19th century. A similar though more recent piece in the British Museum is pictured in “Visions from the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer,” by Isaacs and Blurton, British Museum Press, p. 163. Kalat stands such as this were used by families in much the same manner as the tall, spired hsun-ok to carry offerings of food to the mona ...click for details

Pagan Wood Hsun-ok Lacquer Offering Bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1900 item# 891192 (stock# 64-44)
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This late 19th century offering vessel from the Burmese city of Pagan is an exceptionally fine example of the hsun-ok containers used to carry food offerings to Buddhist monasteries and temples. It is made of wood covered with many coats of lacquer, black first and then top layers of rich deep red. As the red lacquer wears away in areas exposing the black, a handsome negoro effect is created. A similar wooden hsun-ok is pictured in “Burmese Crafts Past and Present,” by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Oxford U ...click for details

Shan Red Lacquer Byat Tray Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1910 item# 882005 (stock# 63-13)
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This very large lacquer tray from the Shan minority people in northeast Burma has four different patterns of basketry weaving showing through the rich persimmon-colored lacquer. Called byat, such handmade trays, used for serving food, were time-consuming to produce. Following the weaving process, each of the many successive applications of lacquer required several days of drying, then burnishing before the next coat of lacquer was applied. Tin trays were replacing these handmade ones a number o ...click for details

Pagan Hsun-ok Lacquer Offering Bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1900 item# 877672 (stock# 63-04)
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This mid-19th century wood offering bowl is from Pagan, an area recognized for producing the finest lacquer items in Burma. Many layers of black lacquer cover the wood base and are topped with a lacquer mixed with cinnabar pigment. These outer red layers have worn away in many places, showing the black lacquer underneath and creating an attractive patina. (For a similar offering bowl see "Burmese Crafts Past and Present" by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Oxford University Press, 1994, color plate 4 ...click for details

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