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Burmese Silver Bowl A skilled silversmith in Burma made this beautifully embossed and engraved bowl. The small tableaus that encircle it represent episodes from Jataka tales, or previous lives of the Buddha, that are familiar to the Bamar/Burman people. The shape is inspired by the alms bowls of the Buddha and his monks that were used to gratefully accept offerings of rice or food for the morning meal. This type of elegant object was used for many utilitarian and decorative purposes in aristocratic Burmese homes and greatly admired and collected by the English Victorian civil service stationed there. It is in excellent condition and measures roughly 8.5 in. across x 7.5 in. high, with a circumference of 27 in. It weighs 2.8 lbs. SOLD For information on the labor-intensive process to create this bowl please see: Burmese Crafts Past and Present by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, 1994, Oxford University Press, New York. 
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