Maung Kywet Ni
Ceremonial Offering Bowl with Scenes of Mahajataka Jataka

ArtistBurmese, Lower Burma (Myanmar)
CultureBurmese, Lower Burma (Myanmar)
Titles
  • Ceremonial Offering Bowl with Scenes of Mahajataka Jataka
Datec. 1880
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 3 5/16 × 3 9/16 diameter in. (8.4 × 9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Friends of Asian Art, and Usha and Kumara Peddamatham
Object number2022.188
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
106M Lovett Gallery
On view

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Department
Asian Art
Object Type
Provenance[Joseph Cohen Antiques, London, 2016]; purchased by David C. Owens’s Noble Collection, Singapore, 2016; sold [Bonhams, New York, March 22, 2022, (sale no. 27510, lot 325)]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
In 'tamarind-seed script': A cup made by Maung Kywet Ni of Moulmein
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Catalogue raisonnéNA

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Unknown Burmese
1909
Silver
2022.186.A-.E
Isoda Koryusai
Handscroll; ink, pigment, and gold on silk
2021.274
Overall.
Kiyomizu Rokubei V
before 1920
Stoneware
2023.358.1-.5
Sacred Offering Dish (Bokor)
Unknown Indonesian
19th century
Gold
2004.2259
Ceremonial Pectoral Dish
Unknown Indonesian
18th century
Gold
2004.2422
inside of object
Unknown Central and South American
1000 BC–1600 AD
Gold
2010.1122
Chasuble with Scenes from the Lives of Christ and the Virgin
Unknown Flemish
c. 1510
Silk, velvet, gold- and silver-wrapped thread, linen
2018.365
Vase with Two Mythological Scenes
Unknown Central and South American
600–900
Earthenware with slip
2016.146
Vase with Two Scenes of the Maize God
Unknown Central and South American
c. 600–900
Earthenware with slip
2019.680
Scenes in the Malay Archipelago
Unknown
1876
Albumen silver print
88.215
[Self-Portraits, Portraits of Co-workers, Scenes of Sailing and Swimming]
Unknown
possibly 1930s
Album of gelatin silver prints
2020.137.61