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A good Burmese large silver bowl, c.1900, by Maung Yin Maung, the heavy bun body deeply repousse
A good Burmese large silver bowl, c.1900, by Maung Yin Maung, the heavy bun body deeply repousse decorated with figures, a chariot, tiger and elephant within arcaded panels between stiff leaf and scroll borders, 26cm. There was a brief flourishing of high quality silversmithing under British rule in Burma at the end of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of the First World War. The Gold Medalist Muang Yin Muang was one of the most highly regarded craftsmen, his work featuring in `Modern Burmese Silverwork`, 1904, where a very similar bowl is illustrated, pl III. The story is that of an early existence of Gaudama Buddha who offers an elephant to the Palace Bramins, but is banished and leaves in a chariot
A good Burmese large silver bowl, c.1900, by Maung Yin Maung, the heavy bun body deeply repousse decorated with figures, a chariot, tiger and elephant within arcaded panels between stiff leaf and scroll borders, 26cm. There was a brief flourishing of high quality silversmithing under British rule in Burma at the end of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of the First World War. The Gold Medalist Muang Yin Muang was one of the most highly regarded craftsmen, his work featuring in `Modern Burmese Silverwork`, 1904, where a very similar bowl is illustrated, pl III. The story is that of an early existence of Gaudama Buddha who offers an elephant to the Palace Bramins, but is banished and leaves in a chariot
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