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Pagan Hsun-ok Lacquer Offering Bowl browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Southeast Asian: Pre 1900: item # 676842 Please refer to our stock # 64-43 when inquiring.
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| Richly colored with cinnabar, this late 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 few thin layers of lacquer mixed with cinnabar pigment. On this piece, 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 45.) The tall spire on the vessel, which is called a hsun-ok, echoes the spires on Buddhist stupa monuments. Hsun-ok were used to carry offerings of food to monasteries and were an important family possession. Processions of graceful Burmese women carrying these vessels on their heads must have made a wonderful sight in old Burma. This piece is in very good condition with just one old mend visible only from the underside of the base (see photo enlargement 6). Dimensions: height 29" (74 cm), diameter 14" (36 cm). | |||||||||||
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