A fine large 19th century Burmese silver offering bowl Burma (Myanmar), circa 1870 A large and exceptional offering bowl with finely detailed and elaborate repoussé work chased and embossed, the broad central frieze, with eight detailed narrative panels depicting stories from folklore, ritualistic scenes, including a family seated in a carriage, drawn by two horses, a couple with children seated below a tree, with a recumbent figure in the branches above, other animals depicted a tiger, with figures ascending in the background, an elephant alongside figures, ministers and courtiers in dwelling scenes, rural and wooded landscapes, each panel under a scrolling ribbon and flanked with small cartouches centred with animals, all among trailing and interlocking foliage and palmettes issuing from floral designs, with a banded upper border with a scrolling orchid 'dha-zin-gwei' design and 'kya-hlan' border, the lower frieze with chinthe lions, these pairs of lion-like creatures separated by male peacocks with tail feathers within roundels, the underside of the bowl is plain, height 21cm, diameter 40cm, weight 87.5oz, weight 2724gms. Footnotes: From A Private Collection of Indian and Burmese Colonial Silver Provenance: From Michael Backman, London, June 2011. Literature: David C. Owens, Burmese Silver Art: Masterpieces Illuminating Buddhist, Hindu and Mythological Stories of Purpose and Wisdom, Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2020. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing