Nanban Saburo Bowl, 13th-15th Century, Bronze, Over 600 Years Old, Angkor Dynasty, Sukhothai Kingdom

¥88,000
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This is a cultural artifact, the same as those displayed in national museums locally.
Please consider it with peace of mind.

Would you be able to find the real thing by wandering through dangerous antique streets in Phnom Penh or Ho Chi Minh City, fearing pickpockets, and ignoring the crowds playing mahjong in front of shops? At ArtDealer, you'll mostly be sold copper bowls from the 18th-20th centuries with verdigris. If a dealer, or even a Japanese person regardless of gender, shows up, information is quickly shared, and prices skyrocket. An ordinary person would give up after one try.

If you want to obtain a genuine cultural artifact,
first, carefully examine the real thing at a local museum.

✴️Listed only on Mercari

◽️When flicked with a finger, it produces the pleasant sound of a gamelan, truly transcending ages.

Items organized from returned museum loans.

◽️Sand-cast Bronze Bowl (Sahari Hachi)

[Origin]
Thailand, Burma, Cambodia /
Throughout the Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia region

Especially the Cambodian region

・Bayon - Post Angkor period of Cambodia /
Bayon period to Post-Angkor period

・Sukhothai kingdom /
13th-15th century

Height / 5.6-5.9cm
Diameter / 11.6-12cm

◽️ Originally a copper bowl over 600 years old.

In Japan, since the time of Sen no Rikyu, Southeast Asian metal crafts were treasured and repurposed as tea ceremony utensils such as mizusashi (fresh water containers), bon (trays), and kensui (waste water bowls) under the name of Nanban (foreign goods).

✴️Several decades ago, when I traveled from the urbanizing Kunming in Yunnan Province, China, to Phongsaly and Luang Namtha in Laos to collect Dong Son bronze drums, I purchased these from locals and dealers and kept them as a collection.

Nowadays, even in the mountainous Phongsaly, you can comfortably use Google Maps with WiFi inside hotels (it's difficult outside). Back then, there were no phones, no showers, no hotels, and no shared language. I lived the same life as the Akha people there.

Even so, I have collected stone statues from Pagan, Champa, and Angkor, as well as bronze bells with spiral patterns and musical instruments from Yunnan, China, and Angkor, and Buddhist art objects from ruined temples.

✴️As these are genuine excavated cultural artifacts, please consider them with understanding.
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