armature;
vessel
- Museum number
- 1991,1023.24
- Description
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Woven split bamboo and horse hair armature for a cup with flexible sides, upon which lacquer is painted to produce a vessel of great suppleness. Made of woven bamboo and horse-hair.
- Production date
- 1991
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10.50 centimetres
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Height: 8.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Isaacs and Blurton 2000:
This piece illustrates a substrate used in the preparation of a lacquer vessel, in this case a cup. Here, there is the added interest of the extreme flexibility of the armature as the woven part is made of horsehair, not split bamboo. This results in a vessel that is so flexible - even after it has been fully lacquered - that the sides can be bent in close to one another, sometimes even touching. Produced to much acclaim for tourists today, this technique was already well established when Burney, in his pioneering study, commented upon it, in 1832.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2000 Apr - 2000 Aug, BM, 'Visions from the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer.'
2001 Dec - 2002 Feb, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 'Visions from the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer.'
2002 Apr- 2002 Jul, Bath, East Asian Art Museum, 'Visions from the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer'
- Acquisition date
- 1991
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1991,1023.24