betel-box
- Museum number
- 1998,0723.109
- Description
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Betel-box made of woven (plaited basketry) and coiled split bamboo, and lacquer. There are no internal trays. The interior is worn, but has a dark scarlet lacquer colouring. The exterior of both the lid and the drum is decorated in red and pinkish yellow lacquer on a black lacquer ground, in the yun technique, with the gwin-shet pattern. These panels of pattern are set between registers of yun decoration in the form of imitation notched bamboo. The side wall of the drum is badly punctured at one place. On the base is a roundel of imitation basketry pattern.
- Production date
- 20thC (early)-20thC (mid)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10.20 centimetres
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Height: 9 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good except for some slight cracking in the lid and a puncture (once mended but now coming undone) in the side wall of the drum.
- Acquisition date
- 1998
- Acquisition notes
- Bought by Mr Isaacs from U Aung Swe of Rangoon in August 1991.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1998,0723.109
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Isaacs 109
