betel-box
- Museum number
- 1998,0723.108
- Description
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Heavy, thick-walled betel-box made of lacquered, woven bamboo with two internal trays. The flared foot and concave profile of the deep cover are features not seen after the mid-nineteenth century. Coloured red, yellow and green on black, the elaborate 'yun' (incised) decoration is filled with birds, floral scrolls, and dancing figures.The basic pattern is 'gwin-shet' ('twisted field') frames, of which there are twenty-eight around the sides of the cover, twenty-nine around the walls of the box and eighteen arranged in a radial pattern on the top of the lid. The base and the bottom of the internal trays are also decorated.
- Production date
- 19thC(mid) (before)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 29.70 centimetres
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Height: 25 centimetres
- 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.'
- Acquisition date
- 1998
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by the donors from U Kyaw Zaw on the east steps of the Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon in August 1991 for 4,000 kyats.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1998,0723.108
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Isaacs 108
