
Dora Tan
Head of Sale, Specialist
This auction has ended. View lot details


US$8,000 - US$12,000
Our Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialist
Head of Sale, Specialist

International Director
This finely worked Theh-Za-Tu-Neh-Ma offering bowl depicts a popular compilation of five jatakas in Burmese silver. The hyphenated classification represents a mnemonic device assembling the first syllable of each jataka's name in Burmese. By their Sanskritic names they are the Temiya, Narada, Sama, Nimi, and Mahajanaka jatakas. In these stories, the bodhisattva who will eventually be reborn as Siddhartha Gautama perfects the virtues of renunciation, equanimity, loving-kindness, resolve, and vigor, respectively. The bowl displays crisp figural representations in the bands of repeated stags galloping around the rim and kneeling near its foot. Scenes are set against a backdrop of architecture and distant landscape, and also include depictions of flying chariots and shipwrecks.
Published:
Owens, Burmese Silver Art, pp.139-43, no.S148, figs.4.28-32.