Sadaik
19th century (made)
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The red gilded chest is rectangular with a heavy hinged lid. On the right of the inside is an oblong compartment with lid.
The relief subjects on the front and ends of the chest seem to be drawn from a Jataka story - which one has still to be identified. In them appear nats, bilus, the Buddha, an oft-repeated horse and a deer amid conventionalised mountains, trees and palaces.
Plain red table-like stand rests on four ball-and-claw feet.
The relief subjects on the front and ends of the chest seem to be drawn from a Jataka story - which one has still to be identified. In them appear nats, bilus, the Buddha, an oft-repeated horse and a deer amid conventionalised mountains, trees and palaces.
Plain red table-like stand rests on four ball-and-claw feet.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Made of teak coated with vermilion thitsi-lacquer onto which fine thayo-work (relief moulded lacquer) has been applied and further painted with vermillion dyed lacquer and gilded. |
| Brief description | Burmese teak red gilded thayo (relief moulded) sadaik (manuscript chest) and red lacquered ball and claw footed stand. Decorated with figures from a Jataka story amidst mountains, trees and palaces. C19 |
| Physical description | The red gilded chest is rectangular with a heavy hinged lid. On the right of the inside is an oblong compartment with lid. The relief subjects on the front and ends of the chest seem to be drawn from a Jataka story - which one has still to be identified. In them appear nats, bilus, the Buddha, an oft-repeated horse and a deer amid conventionalised mountains, trees and palaces. Plain red table-like stand rests on four ball-and-claw feet. |
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| Credit line | Curzon Bequest |
| Object history | Bequest by the Right Hon. George Nathaniel, Marques Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., D.C.I. Given by the Marchioness Curzon and the Hon. Francis N. Curzon. Register entry 24 May 1927. |
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| Accession number | IM.207-1927 |
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| Record created | January 15, 2001 |
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