Statue
2005-10-7
From: North Thailand | Thailand
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 2005-10-7 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Thai | Buddhist |
| Provenience | North Thailand | Thailand |
| Date Made | 19th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Wood | Lacquer | Glass |
| Technique | Inlaid |
| Iconography | Elephant |
| Description | One of a pair of kneeling elephants (or Gajasingha) with upright tail and small ears in red lacquer with glass inlay eyes and a flattened platform back. This would have served as a step to a thammat, or pulpit, where a Buddhist monk would deliver a teaching. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Doris Duke's Southeast Asian Art Collection, 2005 |
| Other Number | 64.16.2 - Other Number |
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