Burma: narrative scenes. Gouache paintings.

[between 1800 and 1899?]

1 painting (36 flaps) : gouache ; gouache 60 x approximately 830 cm

Subjects provisionally described as follows. Flaps 1-3: plants in pots with temple. Flap 4: a bell, with chairs (?). Flaps 5-7: monks in a wooden monastery. Flaps 8-10: slaves (?) pulling a float towards the right. Flaps 11-12: Men wresting (?) before a platform. Flaps 13-14: a puppet show with musicians and audience. Flaps 16-17: serving food to diners. Flaps 18-20: festival or celebration with people dancing. Flaps 21-23: white beds, fan dancers (?), audience, plants in pots, incense burners. Flaps 24-25: a monastery with ascetics or holy men outside. Flaps 26-27: a group of monks giving or receiving pots; a mast with a snake descending from it. Flaps 28-29: people processing foodstuffs. Flaps 30-31: fan dancers with white fans as in flaps 21-23. Flaps 32-36: a sanctuary with towers, temples, musicians and dancers

Wellcome Collection 46619i