A group of three gilt lacquer and inset glass wood shrine panels

Myanmar or Northern Thailand, 19th century

Myanmar or Northern Thailand, 19th century
Including one of chevron shape and two of tall irregular section.
27in (68.5cm) height of arch shaped fragment

These finely carved and beautifully ornamented openwork panels, with mythical vyalas on each side and foliate imagery throughout, would have likely constituted part of an elaborate Buddhist shrine, such as two 19th-century Mandalay examples held in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Acc.#IS11:1-33-1969) and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (Acc#.2006.27.1.a-t), both published in Clarke, 'Highlights of the Lacquer Collection from Myanmar (Burma) in the Victoria and Albert Museum,' in Arts of Asia, Vol.47, No.5, September-October 2017, pp.53-5, nos.19 & 23, respectively.

Provenance
Oriental Commercial, Thailand, by 1987, by repute
Enchanted Art, Annapolis
The Krannich Collection, Virginia acquired from the above in 1991