Shwe-chi-hto (embroidered tapestry)
Embroidered tapestry.
The dancing figures of the kinnari and kinnara fill the centre of this tapestry or shwe-chi-hto (gold-thread embroidery). As seen in this handmade piece, they are often accompanied by mythical or auspicious animals such as the lion or chinthe, the elephant and the peacock. The peacock, long identifi...
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Shwe-chi-hto (embroidered tapestry) [electronic resource]. |
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Embroidered tapestry. |
| Format: | Physical Object |
| Language: | English |
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[20th century].
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SOAS Digital Library.
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The dancing figures of the kinnari and kinnara fill the centre of this tapestry or shwe-chi-hto (gold-thread embroidery). As seen in this handmade piece, they are often accompanied by mythical or auspicious animals such as the lion or chinthe, the elephant and the peacock. The peacock, long identified in Burma with royal lineage and the solar dynasty, became particularly popular in the second half of the nineteenth-century at Mandalay. On this tapestry, the peacock is depicted frontally, the tail fanned open in a row of roundels at the top of the tapestry. The gold of the peacocks is set against a dark red ground worked in a smaller bead to give contrast and texture to the piece. (Text by John T. Carpenter and Yoshiko Yasumura, from the exhibition catalogue: Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Anna Contadini, Editor. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007.) |
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| Language: | English |
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[20th century].
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SOAS Digital Library.
REGIONS. FORMATS. ARTE. RSEA. ISOAS. |
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Myanmar. |