A BURMESE REPOUSSÉ SILVER BOWL
Mandalay, Burma, late 19th century

Of compressed circular form, the embossed decoration on the body presenting a continuous frieze of various scenes including a mythical creature with the wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the head of an elephant, also known as the Hatsadiling, a group of seated figures before an archway, one sitting upon a dias while another playing a saung, flanked by further figures including another holding a saung, all before a brick wall, a caparisoned elephant being played to a man with a saung, and a group of figures kneeling before a figure with a sword, flanked by a mother with a swaddled baby perched in a tree, all within shaped architraves interspersed with scrolling foliage, reserved with flat-chased ‘wallpaper’ decoration of foliage, all below a chased border of vegetal scrolls, the lower section with stylised acanthus leaves, and the underside with a flat chased encircled peacock in display, 24.5cm diam, 15.2cm high, 1190 gr.