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Domestic; ceremonial; ritual.

Description

Bowl made of lacquered wood with deep walls. The bowl is red ovreall with painted decoration in orange, dark yellow and black. Floral designs and cartouches with writing alternate below the rim, the centre band has scenes of women and men in dwellings and in conversation, and there is also a scene of tiger biting a beast's neck. Rim of mouth is black. The bottom has bands of red, black, and yellow floral designs inside concentric rings.

History Of Use

Domestic rice bowls for home use, or more elaborate ones for sale abroad. Red with black figures with scroll-like ornament, identified as "roccoco". Ceremonial bowls "alms bowls" - used to receive offerings of food from the faithful to support the monks. Later, money put in them rather than food. Natural resin from plants, generally sap of the sumac tree used for laquering. Several coats put on to a seasoned, light-weight wood without a visible grain, such as wood from the banyan tree, pine, linden, or birch. Designs brushed on or scratched on, then filled in with laquer.