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Lacquered Split Bamboo Basketry Offering Bowl browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Southeast Asian:Lacquer: Pre 1900: item # 775972 Please refer to our stock # 13-01 when inquiring.
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| An understated and handsome hsun-ok, a covered vessel for the presentation of food offerings to Buddhist monasteries in Burma, shows tightly woven basketry through dark red lacquer. This hsun-ok is in three parts--a bowl, topped with a deep fitted tray, which is covered with a lid. Such vessels held offerings of jaggery in the top tray and rice in the bowl. The appeal of this late 19th century piece is in its simple shape and natural design, with its basketry pattern showing prominently through the lacquer. The dark red lacquer has worn to reveal an undercoat of black lacquer, emphasizing the weave and creating an especially attractive patina. Inside surfaces are smooth, covered with heavy coats of thayo, a thickened lacquer. Small circular flower seals, one centered on the lid, one on the bottom of the bowl and five on the bottom of the tray, are the only added design element. Interestingly, a more recent but similar piece that includes only a tray and lid minus the bowl appears in "Visions from the Golden Land, Burma and the Art of Lacquer," first published by the British Museum Press in 2000, then reissued by Art Media Resources, Chicago, IL, USA. Plate 23 on page 85 of that publication shows two pieces very close in shape and design to the top two parts of this hsun-ok, and our guess is that the piece in the British Museum originally included a bowl. All three pieces of the hsun-ok shown here are in excellent and quite solid condition, with wear apparent on the patina and inside surfaces. Dimensions: height 8-1/2" (22 cm), diameter 15" (38 cm). | |||||||||||
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