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One of six drawings of Burmese types.

Painting
ca.1920 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Half-length figure of a man. He wears a dark-brown turban decorated with white cloth and an oblique band. His pig-tail hangs down the right side of his neck and ends in silverwork (?) decoration. He wears a brown undershirt decorated with silver ornaments, and a dark-blue tunic, open at the front, showing three buttons on his right. He has three narrow silver neck ornaments, a silver ornament on the left side of his tunic, and a black band over his right shoulder passing under his left arm. He wears a belt or sash.

Framed in a narrow black frame covered with zinc on the back and bearing a blue and white label. See Marks/Subjects.


Object details

Category
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Drawing
  • Binding
TitleOne of six drawings of Burmese types. (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Water-colour on paper; wood frame
Brief description
Burmese framed watercolour on paper; half length portrait of a Kaw man in tribal dress in white, browns, dark blue and black with silver jewellery. Signed by the artist, Yatanabon Mg Su. ca.1920
Physical description
Half-length figure of a man. He wears a dark-brown turban decorated with white cloth and an oblique band. His pig-tail hangs down the right side of his neck and ends in silverwork (?) decoration. He wears a brown undershirt decorated with silver ornaments, and a dark-blue tunic, open at the front, showing three buttons on his right. He has three narrow silver neck ornaments, a silver ornament on the left side of his tunic, and a black band over his right shoulder passing under his left arm. He wears a belt or sash.

Framed in a narrow black frame covered with zinc on the back and bearing a blue and white label. See Marks/Subjects.
Dimensions
  • Frame height: 29.5cm
  • Frame width: 30.5cm
  • Frame depth: 1.3cm
  • Sight meas. of picture height: 23.5cm
  • Sight meas. of picture width: 15.5cm
  • Length: 24.5cm
  • Width: 16cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed on the bottom right in black "Yatanabon MgSu" (Label; English; Print; Back of frame Signed in the lower left hand croner in pencil - "Kaw Man/Kengtung State".)
  • Kaw man / Kengtung State (Textual information; English; lower left-hand corner; pencil)
  • `Yatanabon Mg. Su' (Signature; English; cursive; lower right; black ink)
Object history
Purchased. Registered File number 1979/456.
Production
The artist was from Mandalay but it is thought he spent his working life in Rangoon, Burma
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 184 p. ISBN 0944142303
Collection
Accession number
IS.23:1, 2-1979

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Record createdSeptember 17, 2001
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