Storage Box with Scenes from the Sama Jataka and the Ramayana

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Storage Box with Scenes from the Sama Jataka and the Ramayana
CultureBurmese, Lower Burma (Myanmar)
Titles
  • Storage Box with Scenes from the Sama Jataka and the Ramayana
Date1925
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/4 × 5 13/16 diameter in. (18.4 × 14.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Friends of Asian Art, and Usha and Kumara Peddamatham
Object number2022.187.A,.B
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
106M Lovett Gallery
On view

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Department
Asian Art
Object Type
ProvenanceRollestone Steritt Fyfe, Bishop of Rangoon (R.S. Rangoon), Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar), by 1925; given by him to a Mr. “Weston,” June 15th, 1925; acquired by [Wynard R.T. Wilkinson, F.S.A. SCOT., London, by 2017]; purchased by David C. Owens’s Noble Collection, Singapore, 2017; sold [Bonhams, New York, March 22, 2022, (sale no. 27510, lot 327)]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Exhibition HistoryRangoon Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Dehli, India, 1925.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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