http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2010/04/16/in-the-galleries-a-few-additions/ Blogging Asian Art and Culture Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:25:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2010/04/16/in-the-galleries-a-few-additions/comment-page-1/#comment-11866 American Vietnamese Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:48:42 +0000 http://www.asianart.org/blog/?p=2503#comment-11866 The Chinese ritual food vessel looks spectacular. I bet it is even more impressive in person. The Chinese ritual food vessel looks spectacular. I bet it is even more impressive in person.

]]> http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2010/04/16/in-the-galleries-a-few-additions/comment-page-1/#comment-9592 Nancy Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:52:26 +0000 http://www.asianart.org/blog/?p=2503#comment-9592 Well, DUH! I read the caption on the silver bowl more carefully and realized that you had explained that it was made IN Burma for a Parsee family IN Indian. OK - insert foot..etc. Well, DUH! I read the caption on the silver bowl more carefully and realized that you had explained that it was made IN Burma for a Parsee family IN Indian. OK – insert foot..etc.

]]> http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2010/04/16/in-the-galleries-a-few-additions/comment-page-1/#comment-9530 Nancy Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:39:09 +0000 http://www.asianart.org/blog/?p=2503#comment-9530 The silver bowl with Zoroastrian themes, circa 1875 is very interesting. I had no idea that Zoroaster was known outside Iran - much less Burma. I guess this is another example of how widely ideas - and art - traveled in parts of the world that we think of as rather isolated. The silver bowl with Zoroastrian themes, circa 1875 is very interesting. I had no idea that Zoroaster was known outside Iran – much less Burma. I guess this is another example of how widely ideas – and art – traveled in parts of the world that we think of as rather isolated.

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