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Chris (Simpsons Artist) is an illustrator known for his bizarre, naive art-style depictions of characters from various cartoons, live-action television series and films, including The Simpsons and Winnie the Pooh.

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Certainly the mountain tribes of the Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos and Thailand) used the smallest ones for weighting opium, although they were actually made for everyday use, including all sorts of commerce. These weights were used on scales to weigh all sorts of foods, raw materials and metals.

These weights have long attracted the attention of travellers to Burma and are nowadays collected by many collectors all over the world.

Most common opium weights are made of bronze and are in the form of a Hintha bird or Brahmani duck. There are also more rare weights in different shapes as lions or other animals.

The earliest Hintha weights found are thought to date from around the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They are set on a pumpkin-shaped base.

When the British occupied Burma in 1885, they introduced round and flat iron weights and from that time officially no more bronze weights were cast.

Unofficially, the production of animal-shaped brass weights was continued and this even survived into the 20th century.

Because of their popularity with tourists, fakes and reproductions of opium weights are now widely seen in many shops.

The opium weights that we sell are 100% original and no recent copies.

Source: http://www.burmese-art.com/catalog/opium-weights

Erik Thor Sandberg approaches each composition as if it were a conversation between the artist and the viewer. The dialogue thus generated by his work always questions and attempts to define human identity (and scraps thereof).

Grotesque Human And Animal Hybrid Sculptures By Liu Xue.

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