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Known in Burma as chu,
this spherical bell is a late 19th elephant bell from Mandalay,
Burma. It is cast in bronze and decorated with a traditional flower design.
This is a particularly beautiful bell of its kind and bears the smithy's insignia as shown in the third photo. A metal ball rolls around inside
the bell and sounds against the bell wall with distinctively gentle notes. It
has an attractive, slightly mottled patina with some oxidization. It is in
excellent condition. The bell is hung from a custom built stand. Please see
below for dimensions and shipping costs. Google sabai
designs gallery to see our full collection of antique bronze bells from
Burma & Thailand. Dimensions Antique bronze bells from Southeast Asia have
understandably become a sought after collector’s item. The bells of old are
often far more beautiful than bells crafted today. They were cast in bronze and
bear a range of attractive designs and often interesting inscriptions. In
Burma, the tradition of blacksmithing has always been an honoured occupation
associated with courage, strength and integrity. The Nat is an
ancient spirit guardian possessing supernatural powers in Burmese tradition.
The household Nat can take many forms, the most powerful being the
Mahagiri Nat, Nga Tin-de (Mr Handsome), a blacksmith of
extraordinary strength who was killed by a jealous king. “He wielded two
hammers; with his right hand he held an iron hammer weighing fifty viss, and
with his left hand he held another hammer weighing twenty-five viss. When Nga
Tin-de worked his smithy and when he used his hammers against the anvil,
the whole city quaked and trembled.” (Maung Htin Aung, Folk Elements in Burmese
Buddhism). The Burmese excelled at
bronze casting using the lost wax method or cire perdue. The nature of
the work was hot, dusty and malodorous so foundries and smithies were located
on the outskirts of town in open sided bamboo shelters. They made their own
crucibles of clay with a lip for pouring, and handled them with cradles of
bamboo or wood during the casting process. A shallow hole in the ground served
as a hearth and the charcoal fuel was kept at the desired temperature by
bellows made from hollowed bamboo with feather covered pistons- an ingenious
device which was used until it was replaced with leather bellows under the
influence of the British. The magnificent Shwedagon
pagoda in Yangon
holds a famous temple bell, the Maha Ganda, weighing 23 tons. In
1825 the British attempted to remove it as booty but dropped it in the Rangoon
River. It was later recovered and reinstated to its
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