Thavibu Gallery | Contemporary Art from Thailand, Vietnam and Burma |
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| Box with Gold Leaf |
Provenance: Probably Shan
State, Laikha? |
| Period:: Late 19th/ early 20th Century |
Technique: Lacquered bamboo |
| Height:
23 cm, Diam: 28 cm |
Private
collection |
| Note: Large, superb, detailed and
elaborate lacquer box with gold leaf - such a box may have been used by
royalty/aristocrats |
| Similarities with no. 131 in the
book Visions from the Golden Land by R. Isaacs and R. Blurton |
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