A late 19^th / early 20^th century Burmese unmarked silver bowl, Mandalay circa 1900

Of compressed circular form, the body with embossed decoration of scenes from the Ramayana, such as Ravana kidnapping Sita in his Pushpaka Viman to take her to Lanka and two warriors upon caparisoned elephants, all against a textured ‘wallpaper’ ground within architraves, below chased foliate scrolls, all above a band of stylised leaves. The underside with flat chased peacock encircled within pellets.

Height – 8.9 cm / 3.5 inches

Diameter – 14.6 cm / 5.75 inches

Weight – 492 grams / 15.82 ozt