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  Arakan-style Bronze Oil Lamp

 

Myanmar

A Burmese Arakan-style bronze oil lamp that depicts Dipankhara (fig.) holding a small oil receptacle (fig.). He was the first of 27 buddha predecessors and his name means ‘Lamp bearer’.