Painting

89-13-418

From: Thailand

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 89-13-418
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Thai | Buddhist
Provenience Thailand
Section Asian
Materials Paper | Brocade
Iconography Kinnari
Inscription Language Thai Language
Description

Painting with brocade borders of approx. 2.4 cm width. Painting on beige paper. At the top a kinnari holds a jar, accompained by two small kneeling kinnari at his feet, as the jar is being offered to a kneeling monk. There is a temple at the top right. At the top left are three birds in a tree. Also included is a large kinnari seated on a bell shaped throne, enclosed by agated wall. Script. In the lower part a small kinnari kneels at the feet of a larger male kinnari in a landscape with trees, rocks, flowers, pond and three deer.

Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989

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