A Burmese silver offering bowl on a metal stand Burma (Myanmar), late 19th century The circular bowl, rolled over rim, repoussé work central band around the body depicts a panoramic storyboard almost all the way around depicting in high relief figural modelling, Burmese figures in traditional costume, one scene depicts a flying chimera of a bird-like creature with a prominent elephant's head, grasping a recumbent figure, a female figure with child in a tree top, climbing figure below, two other elephants one with a calf, the scenes set against a backdrop of dotted scrolls, below eight cusped arches, the lower frieze with repeating acanthus motifs, underside of the base with floral roundel motif, with applied screw thread, fixing to the electroplated base, formed as three mythological fish / dolphins, on an agate tripartite base, height overall 20.5cm, diameter at top 15cm, weight total of bowl 19.6oz. Footnotes: From A Private collection of Indian and Burmese Colonial Silver For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing