STORIES IN SILVER

rom the 9th century to the 19th century, silversmiths in Burma (now known as Myanmar) made luxury objects for the royal courts, replete with complex religious symbolism from the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The mid-19th through early 20th centuries, the), rather than tea sets and similar Western-oriented objects. The technique used to make Burmese silver involved the use of very high relief and great density of ornamentation, so that the objects appear encrusted with foliage or covered with busy scenes from mythology, particularly the .