This tall offering vessel or hsun ok was made in six parts. It is profusely decorated in stylised human and animal figures perhaps including characters from the popular epic, the Ramayana. The intricate yun work or colour-engraving was a technique in which designs were incised through different layers of lacquer, in this case red, yellow, green and black. The elaborate background is known more popularly as 'exhausted fingers' work.Offering vessels were made in many styles throughout Burma, in this case the famous lacquer-making centre in the town of Bagan. They have multiple trays for carrying food, betel quids and other offerings to the temple on special occasions. The more elaborately decorated vessels would have been owned by wealthy families.
