thang-kha
- Museum number
- 1933,0508,0.120
- Description
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Thang Kha. Religious. Figure of a lama. Appliqued and embroidered on textile. The cloth backing on the reverse is made up of fragments of the so-called Vrindavani Vastra lampas silk, from Assam (see Bibliographic reference)
- Production date
- 18thC(late)-19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 centimetres
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Width: 77.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The 'List of Curios' written by Sir Charles Bell concerning his collection, has the following entry for this object:
'No 66
Smaller needlework scroll given me by [the] Maharajah of Bhutan in January 1910. Centre figure is She-rap, a former Ta-tsang kempo, who lived 150 to 200 years ago (there have been about 25 since him). Top left hand corner is the first Shap-Tung Rimpoche (mga-wang nam-gyal). Top right hand corner is Sakya Rinchen, the third most learned Ta-tsang kem-po. Most learned of all wasKenchen Lo-nam Oser (who was a disciple of the first Dharma Raja) and the second most learned was Cham-gon Nga-wang Gyetsen. At the foot of Sherap are his two monk-servants dressed in red. Along the foot are the bell, dorje, cup and cupstand, bowl for food and bowl for incense standing on a table at the side of which and behind it appear his chair with representation[s] of lions (seng-ge). Below is a dragon.'
Information courtesy of Dr Emma Martin, University of Manchester
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2016 21 Jan-15 Aug, London, BM, G91, Krishna in the garden of Assam: the cultural context of an Indian textile
- Condition
- Paper label on the reverse bearing in Tibetan the name 'Sharab Sangye'.
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Acquisition notes
- Gift to Sir Charles Bell from the Maharajah of Bhutan
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1933,0508,0.120