Painting

89-13-424

From: Thailand

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 89-13-424
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Thai
Provenience Thailand
Section Asian
Materials Paper | Pigment
Inscription Language Thai Language
Description

Painting on paper with silk brocade border. Subject includes elephant with riders and monks in a stone pavillion with a brick wall. There is a tower at the corner of the wall with a pagoda at the top. Two monks carry an umbrella in front of an elephant carrying 8 men. In the lower section three monks beat drums. Inscription in Old Thai.

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

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