ANCIENT BRONZES. 
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(a.b. 15-84), are the principal pieces. There are also two large 
lamp covers having a modern appearance. 
A number of bracket lamps with scroll work and prong for fixing 
into a socket, hand lamps shaped like the incense-burners from 
Polonnaruwa (third series), but without a spout below the bowl, 
and hansas, or sacred geese, complete the collection, which deserves 
more consideration than can be given to it on this occasion. 
Text-figure 9. Bracket lamp from Muoiseram. 
Up to the year 1906 the Muniseram and Kurunegala bronzes 
were the principal bronzes in the Museum,* apart from the unique 
bronze Buddhaf from Badulla District, the elephant-spouted kothali 
from Ratnapura,J and the bronze elephant bell with bo-leaf and 
triangle ornament, which was figured by Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy 
in “Mediaeval Sinhalese Art,” Plate XLIV., fig. 3. 
There are more bronze Buddhist images and ornaments which 
have been sent to the Museum from time to time from different 
places or have been acquired by purchase. Their enumeration 
must be deferred to a supplementary list later. 
* See Spolia Zeylanica, Vol. III., p. 22. f Ibid., p. 17. 
X Ibid., p. 22, and illustration herewith. 
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