DepartmentAsia
The Fourteenth Dream: When tiny frogs chewed huge snakes
NameBuddhist Temple Carving
CultureBurmese
Dateearly – mid 20th century
Place madeMyanmar, ASIA
MediumWood, paint, metal nails
Dimensions30 1/4 × 25 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (76.8352 × 64.1351 × 10.795 cm)
Credit LineGift of Earl and Shari Kessler
Object numberA.2022.67.1
Provenancemade in Central Burma; purchased by donor in 2004 at Paul’s Antiques, a gallery in River City mall in Bangkok, Thailand; shipped to donor’s home in 2006.
DescriptionHuge relief square panel sculpture depicting a blue cobra snake being eaten by a frog on the left side, and a woman wearing a pink skirt with her right hand up standing above a crouched man with a white scraf around his head.
late 19th - early 20th century
Early 20th c.
Early - mid 20th century
CA 1960, STAFF
CA 1960, STAFF
