Help with Siam/Thai ? Silver large bowl marks
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:51 pm
Hello, Can anyone tell me about these marks or reference me please. Thanks Steve
well i guess your bowl is 60 baht, see here -from wikipedia:
Unit of mass
The baht is also a unit of weight for gold, commonly used by jewellers and goldsmiths in Thailand. One baht = 15.244 grams.[7] Since the standard purity of Thai gold is 96.5%, the actual gold content in one baht is 15.244 × 0.965 = 14.71046 grams, or about 0.4729523 troy ounce. 15.244 grams is used for "raw" gold or bullion; in the case of jewellery, 1 baht should be more than 15.16 grams.
does your bowl weigh approx 60 x 15 grams?. it would be a big bowl if it did.
As for the elephant stamp, i would also like to know what this means as i have a piece with the same stamp.
Guessing it is Burmese or Thai. The style of stamps looks different to other Thai pieces I have seen but could be from a different area or era