MATERIAL: Silver
TYPE: Scroll
NOTES: We acquired from famed art dealer Sam Fogg in London many years ago.
ITEM ID: 435
Burmese Silver Scroll
DATE
Year: 1600
Decade: 1600s
Century: 17th (1601-1700)
A Burmese Buddhist silver sutra scroll manuscript.
According to Helga Rebhan, “Such rolledup silver leaves were usually kept in the reliquiary of a pagoda in order to consecrate it. The valuable material gives evidence of a wealthy donor who could afford the costs of the metal and the scribe. The language of it is very likely Pali, the sacred language of Theravada Buddhism.”
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