The Collection
The American Wing Ancient Near Eastern Art Arms and Armor The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Asian Art The Cloisters The Costume Institute Drawings and Prints Egyptian Art European Paintings European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Greek and Roman Art Islamic Art Robert Lehman Collection The Libraries Medieval Art Musical Instruments Photographs Antonio Ratti Textile Center Modern and Contemporary Art

Returned to lender The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.

Funerary Urn with Buddhist Auspicious Emblems

Central Myanmar

6th–8th century

Not on view

This funerary urn, with multiple impressions of Buddhist auspicious emblems, was recovered from a Buddhist context at the Pyu moated city of Sri Ksetra. The emblems include paired fish, conch shells, pots, and the srivatsa mark of one blessed with good fortune. In both form and function, it resonates with earlier pre-Buddhist Pyu funerary practices. The base is concave and has a “piecrust” rim. This tradition of urn burial, with stone versions reserved for royalty, has antecedents in pre-Buddhist Pyu Myanmar. The practice is also known in early Buddhist India, as excavations at Nagarjunakonda in coastal southern India have revealed.

cat no. 25

Funerary Urn with Buddhist Auspicious Emblems, Terracotta, Central Myanmar — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Funerary Urn with Buddhist Auspicious Emblems, Terracotta, Central Myanmar

Funerary Urn with Buddhist Auspicious Emblems, Terracotta, Central Myanmar

This artwork is meant to be viewed from right to left. Scroll left to view more.

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Funerary Urn with Buddhist Auspicious Emblems

Date: 6th–8th century

Culture: Central Myanmar

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm); Diam. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Lent by Thiri Khittaya (Śrī Ksetra) Archaeological Museum, Hmawza, Myanmar, private donation (2001/2/8)

The Met

Asian Art at The Met

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world.