 Pair of lacquer panels Current and Past Exhibitions, Current and Past Exhibitions
Pair of lacquer panels.Chinese.Kangxi period, 1662-1722.H. 26 ½ ins, 67.5 cm. W. 14 ins, 35.5 cm. A pair of black lacquered wooden panels, each brightly painted in polychrome and gilt enamels with a garden landscape of people seated in pavilions among lakes, bridges and mountains; each framed in its original gilded lacquer frame with brass fittings.Provenance: Collection of Derek Clifford.
|  OFFERING VESSEL (HSUN OK) Current and Past Exhibitions
Catalogue no. 40.OFFERING VESSEL (HSUN OK).BURMA, PAGAN AREA.19TH CENTURY.H. 65 CMS, 25 ½ INS.A fine, gilded and lacquered Hsun Ok (offering vessel) with fitted upper and lower sections surmounted by a tiered finial; decorated with intricate bands of multi-coloured inlaid glass.Hsun Ok are placed on either side of a statue in a Buddhist temple, allowing devotees to place their offerings inside, thus accruing personal merit through their donation which in turn benefits the monastic establishment. Lacquered and gilded Hsun Ok, decorated in distinctive regional styles are found throughout Burma, but this general form, with a lid finial resembling a Buddhist stupa, is found throughout the country. This example is decorated with thayo, a mixture of lacquer and ash, which is rolled into a putty that can be used to create raised thread patterns. Following gilding, it was given an additional ornament of coloured glass spangles, arranged to resemble jewels, in typically Burmese taste and often seen trimming the robes of Buddha images. For similar examples see nos. 1 and 91 in R. Isaacs and T.R. Blurton, Visions from the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer, London: British Museum, 2000.
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