betel-box

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Object Type
Museum number: 1998,0723.140
Description: A lacquered and woven bamboo Gaduganan betel box with no trays and decorated with the yun (incised) technique. The colours are red, black and yellow. The cover is domed and displays an elaborate and finely drawn design of Chinese cloud collars in black and edged with yellow forming clover-leaf shapes which frame small figures of dancers and deer. The side frieze is the same and is set between bands of grooved red lacquer inset with very narrow hoops of bare bamboo. The side of the base has a frieze of four-footed animals. The bottom has a Chinese cloud collar design and tiny figures of deer.
Production date: 20thC (early)
Production place: Made in: Gaduganan
Materials: bamboo; lacquer
Technique: woven; lacquered; yun
Dimensions: Diameter: 19.20 centimetres; Height: 15 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2000 Apr - 2000 Aug, BM, 'Visions from the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer.'
Condition: The exposed bamboo was once yellow and has now darkened.
Subjects: bird; animal
Acquisition name: Donated by: Ralph H Isaacs; Donated by: Mrs Ruth Isaacs
Acquisition date: 1998
Acquisition notes: Acquired by the donors from the floating market on Inle Lake at Ywama on 29 December 1991 for 1,400 kyats.
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1998,0723.140
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Isaacs 142

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