Unknown Burmese
Betel Box with Scenes from the Sama Jataka

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Bottom container (.C) inscriptions detail.

Artist Unknown Burmese

CultureBurmese, Lower Burma (Myanmar)

Titles

Betel Box with Scenes from the Sama Jataka

Date1909

MediumSilver

DimensionsOverall: 19 5/8 × 13 1/8 diameter in. (49.8 × 33.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Friends of Asian Art, and Usha and Kumara Peddamatham

Object number2022.186.A-.E

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

106M Lovett Gallery

On view

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Department

Asian Art

Object Type

METALWORK

Provenance[Isan Gallery, Singapore, 2014]; purchased by David C. Owens’s Noble Collection, Singapore, 2014; sold [Bonhams, New York, March 22, 2022, (sale no. 27510, lot 329)]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.

Exhibition HistoryNA

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

A decorative medallion of two tropical birds in a fruit tree and an inscription on the concealed underside of both trays translated: "Myanmar Calendar Year 1271 [1909 CE]. Silver Container".

Catalogue raisonnéNA

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