Four fold screen with Burmese lacquered Kammavaca sutras (182 x 64cm)

182 x 64 cm  //  6ft x 2ft 1" (each panel)

The gilded Kammavaca leaves usually date from the 20^th century with the lacquer layers being built up over a fabric ground by successive layers of laquer. When the individual leaves / pages are bound together, they would have constituted a book. Earlier examples tend to have fewer lines of text and may be on a wide variety of substrates - palm leaf, ivory and metal.

• early 20th C

Ref. 19221