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Pumpkin bird weight, Gears group 6, 1 viss, Lan Na / Burma, pre-1600
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It’s a rare Pumpkin bird weight with bird sign front and back at an octagonal solid bronze base and with the Lan Na inscription left and right. Signs of rubbing/grinding at the protruding vertical edges of the base and at the tip of the nose as well as a chip at the tip of the tail do only slightly reduce the charm of this old pumpkin weight. Otherwise good condition. weight mass:
1 viss / 100 tical (1’137 g)
height:
90 mm / 3.54 in
provenance:
European art market
reference:
Gear, Donald & Joan, An Ancient Bird-shaped Weight System From Lan Na and Burma, fig. 1 - 3
price:
sold
Solitaire Catalogue no. 20 - April 2017