Figure of Min Sithu Nat
Details
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Title
Figure of Min Sithu Nat
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Artist/maker
Maung Kyaw Yan (active end of the 19th century) (sculptor) -
Associated people
Sir Richard Carnac Temple (1850 - 1931) (commissioner) -
Associated place
Burma (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1894 -
Material and technique
teak, carved
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Object type
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Dimensions
73 x 32 x 35 cm max. (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Transferred from the Indian Institute, University of Oxford.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.7323
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Further reading
Temple, R. C., The Thirty-seven Nats. A Phase of Spirit-Worship Prevailing in Burma (London: Kiscadale Publications, 1991), illus. p. 60 no. 31
Branfoot, Crispin, ‘Burmese Nats: Wooden Sculpture from the Richard C. Temple Collection’, Eastern Art Report - Eastern Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Great Museums of the World Series, IV, no. 2, (1995), illus. p. 35 fig. 2
Bamford, Sally, ‘Counting to 37: Sir Richard Carnac Temple and the Thirty-Eighth Nat’, Journal of Burma Studies, (2019), p. 164 f. 3
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