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31. Photo 61/1(31)

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Photo 61/1(31)
Title:
No. 31. Tsagain Myo [Sagaing]. Litters under a shed. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'L. Tripe' in ink, lower right of print. View of intricately-carved wooden palanquins lying in a shed, partially overgrown with vegetation. with letterpress note: 'These were left by will to the Aong-mre-lo-ka Pagoda near them, by members of the Royal family; equipages belon...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

32. Photo 61/1(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(43)
Title:
No. 43. Amerapoora [Amarapura]. Corner of Mygabhoodee Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'L. Tripe' in ink, bottom right of print. Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a section of the carved-wood balustrade of the Mahabodhi Kyaung.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

33. Photo 88/1(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(9)
Title:
Shrine S.D. [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of one of the shrines on the Shwe Dagon Pagoda platform, showing richly carved wooden decoration. For a closer view of the same shrine, see print 10.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

34. Photo 88/1(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(10)
Title:
Burmese glass mosaic [Shwe Dagon Pagoda], Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a shrine on the platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, showing intricately carved decoration in teak, and pillars covered in glass mosaic. A small group of Shans is posed in front of the shrine. Reproduced as plate 4 in Harry L. Tilly, 'Glass Mosaics...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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