betel-box
- Museum number
- 1998,0723.137
- Description
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Betel-box made of woven and coiled split bamboo and lacquer. With slightly domed lid and base in the Shan style and with one interior tray. The interior is covered in a plain cinnabar red lacquer coating (the interior of the drum is marked with the remains of some deposit, rather like solidified wax - perhaps some betel ingredient). The top of the lid is decorated in the yun technique with the 'Chinese cloud-collar' design in black. This is on a red ground which has been dotted with yellow; at the edges are bands of yellow yun decoration which imitates the inlaid bamboo strips seen on the side of the lid. The latter appear above and below a register of red with black 'scribbled' and dotted yun decoration; there are also further bands of imitation inlaid bare bamboo. The exterior of the drum is decorated with six registers of yun fish-scale pattern.
- Production date
- 20thC (early)-20thC (mid)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 14 centimetres
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Height: 9 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Crack across the domed surface of the lid; chips to base of lid; lacquer surface missing on part of tray, exposing basketry; deposit in bottom of drum (see Description); worn on exterior of base, and crack.
- Acquisition date
- 1998
- Acquisition notes
- Bought by Mr. Isaacs from one of the market stalls beneath the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda at Ywama on Inle Lake, southern Shan States.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1998,0723.137
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Isaacs 139
