ANTIQUE 20thC OUTSTANDING BURMESE SOLID SILVER THABEIK BOWL, RANGOON c.1900
20th Century Exceptional Burmese, Myanmar solid silver Thabeik bowl, repousse' decorated in high relief depicting different traditional scenes from the Burmese mythology, showing very detailed figures set against a chiselled matted background in landscapes. Around the scenes and the top chased with scrolling foliage, the base decorated with pluming peacocks and pouncing mythological tigers.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A5100
DESCRIPTION
Antique early-20th Century Exceptional Burmese, Myanmar solid silver Thabeik bowl, repousse' decorated in high relief depicting different traditional scenes from the Burmese mythology, showing very detailed figures set against a chiselled matted background in landscapes. Around the scenes and the top chased with scrolling foliage, the base decorated with pluming peacocks and pouncing mythological tigers. The quality of the bowl is simply outstanding and very crisp, the figures and proportions are much smaller than usual, the quality of workmanship is possibly the best I have ever seen in Burmese silver, its comparable to the best silversmiths active at the time.
CONDITION
In Great Condition - No Damage.
SIZE
Height: 11cm
Width: 19cm
Weight: 585g
