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81. Photo 88/1(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(11)
Title:
Wood carving S.D. [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Detail of an intricately carved teak screen framing the entrance to a shrine in the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. The piece incorporates nats engaged in various activities within a design of vines. Reproduced as plate 15 in Harry L. Tilly, 'Wood-carving of Burma' (Rangoon,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

82. Photo 88/1(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(12)
Title:
Facade of East Entrance S.D. [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda [Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of entrance, showing rich wood-carved decoration.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

83. Photo 88/1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(14)
Title:
Base of Sacred Pole S.D. [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography With carved figures of nats on each tiered level of the base.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

84. Photo 88/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(24)
Title:
Stern of Burmese paddy boat. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Showing the Burmese tillerman seated in the richly decorated (in foliate design) steering chair in the raised stern of an Irrawaddy paddy boat or laung-zat.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

85. Photo 96/1(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 96/1(40)
Title:
[Facade of the Lakshana Devi Temple, Brahmaur, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the facade and the very elaborately carved wooden doorway and surround of the 7th-century Lakshana Devi Temple in the Chanrasi temple complex at Brahmaur. The carving probably dates to the 10th century.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

86. Photo 120(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 120(2)
Title:
Betgeri. Group of viragals (monumental stones). Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, New Imperial Series, Calcutta, 1926), plate 154a and described, p. 143: 'One of the largest and most interesting groups of these ston...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

87. Photo 120(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 120(3)
Title:
Borivali (Salsette). [Six] sculptured stones. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Row of sculptured viragals or memorial stones. Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, New Imperial Series, Calcutta, 1926), plate 153, and described, p. 143:' There is an is...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

88. Photo 120(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 120(4)
Title:
Aihole. Durga Temple, Pillar in the porch. Photographer: Burgess, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a sculptured pillar in the Durga Temple, Aihole. For another copy of this photograph, see Photo 1000/3 (346). This print also appears as plate 53 of James Burgess, 'Report of the First Season's Operations in the Belgam and Kaladgi Districts. Januar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

89. Photo 120(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 120(7)
Title:
Borivali (Salsette). Sculptured stones (second and third of group). Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of two of the viragals or sculptured memorial stones from a larger group. Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, New Imperial Series, Calcutta, 1926), plate 154c...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

90. Photo 184(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 184(70)
Title:
Leeuw met ring (Goeriang boentoetan), twee lanspunten en haken, Telaga [Lion with ring, two spear heads and decorative hooks, Telaga]. Photographer: Kinsbergen, Isidore van
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Objects carved from wood. 'Ritual implements including a finial of a processional staff and part of a lion-shaped lamp. Talaga, Cirebon district, West Java province, 16th-18th century' [Note from catalogue list of series in Gerda Theuns-de Boer and Saskia Asse...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1863-Apr 1864
Extent:
1 item

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