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.