Enquiry about object: 9382
Thai Silver Gilt Pedestal Bowl & Cover (Thiap)
Thailand, and maybe Cambodia early 20th century
height: 16.5cm, width: 12.4cm, weight: 297g
Provenance
private collection, London, UK
This gilded silver pedestal bowl and cover is known in Thai as a thiap.
It has a splayed foot, a collar rising to the bowl, and then a tight-fitting domed cover with a pointy lotus-bud finial.
The thiap is chased all over a with stylised flowers in a petal-trellis arrangement.
The silver has been gilded and there are traces of blue enamel.
Probably from Thailand, the vessel might also be from Cambodia.
Such a vessel was used to hold and present food to a senior monk.
There are no maker’s marks.
References
Bromberg, P., Thai Silver and Nielloware, River Books, 2019.
Naengnoi Punjabhan, Silverware in Thailand, Rerngrom Publishing, 1991.
