Album of drawings from Mandalay
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 2009
- Dimensions
- 38 x 23.5 cm
- Vendor
- Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd
Costumes are carefully depicted and each personage is accompanied by his or her insignia of rank such as swords, musical instruments and betel nut containers. Included are different grades of court officials, high ranking army officers, princes and other significant court figures of the time, including Brahmin priests. This album is an important addition to the V&A's collection of Burmese court costume and books showing court dress from the same time period.
Provenance
Robert Hoe; Doris Duke; Millea Auction House, New Jersey, 2009; Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd.