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The lid fits around an inset lip and calcined bones and ash were found inside.\n\nThe reliquary was found alongside several other objects, including a gold headdress, 02758(IS), and a gold reliquary in the form of a stupa, 02755(IS), during the clearance of buildings at the foot of Shwedagon Pagoda Hill in Yangon, Myanmar, for the construction of a British army  barracks in 1855, following the Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852–1853). This headdress and the associated finds may relate to the funerary remains of a  queen of the Mon king Rajadhiraj (or Razadarit), who reigned from around 1384 to 1420.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"gold","id":"AAT11021"},{"text":"Human bone","id":"THES273764"}],"techniques":[{"text":"raising","id":"AAT237068"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Plain gold formed by raising","categories":[{"text":"India Museum","id":"THES286062"}],"styles":[{"text":"Mon","id":"AAT19089"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2020MR6665","2018KX5068"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES367990"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES367990"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES301260"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Cover","id":""}],[{"text":"Bowl","id":""}],[{"text":"Ash","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Burma","id":"x30037"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Myanmar","id":"x30037"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"15th century","earliest":"1400-01-01","latest":"1500-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"02758(IS)","id":"O10654"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"02755(IS)","id":"O10652"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"13","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"24","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"at the widest point","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Discovered by labourers in 1855 during the construction of a barracks near the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon (then Rangoon), Myanmar, along with a  gold reliquary in the shape of a stupa, 02755(IS), a gold reliquary in the form of a lidded bowl, 02752(IS), and several other objects. These items were sent  to Calcutta and then on to the East India Company's India Museum in 1856. They were exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society in June 1857 and  transferred to the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum) in 1879.\r\n\nA reading of an inscription on a gold sheet in the Pali language found alongside this reliquary raises the possibility that the corporeal remains or relic found within it are associated with a wife of the king Rajadhiraja (r. 1384–1421).","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Lidded reliquary, gold, Myanmar, 15th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Sykes, Col. W.H. “Account of Some Golden Relics Discovered at Rangoon.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society  Vol. 17 (1860): 298–308.\r\n\r\nSinger, Noel F. “The Gold Relics of Bana Thau.” Arts of Asia (September/October 1992): 81.\r\n\r\nGuy, John. “Gold in Asia.” In Gold and Civilisation, exhibition catalogue, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 11 March – 24 June 2001, 169–191.  Illustrated p. 182.\r\n\r\nStadtner, Donald M. \"Rajadhiraj's Rangoon Relics and a Mon Funerary Stupa.\" Journal of the Siam Society Vol. 103 (2015): 63–88."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["02752A/(IS)","02752(IS)","02752B/(IS)"],"accessionNumberNum":"02752","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"India Museum Slip Book","id":"THES50388"},"number":"7599"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Cover","Bowl"],"assets":["2025PD7770"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-07-17","recordCreationDate":"1999-03-17","availableToBook":false}}