Illumination from Thai manuscript between 1875 and 1899?

Description
Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing farmers working and children playing by a river. The scene also includes water buffalo, fish, birds, two buildings, and a forest background. On the verso is text from the Phra Malai.
Form
manuscripts (documents)
facsimiles (reproductions)
fragments (object portions)
folded books
illuminations (paintings)
Manuscripts, Thai
illustrated works (documents)
Date
1875
Language
Thai
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Specimens
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai
Geographic Subject
Thailand -- Pictorial works
Thailand
Extent
1 folio : color illustration
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 17, 2015)
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
Written on khoi paper; manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.
Written and painted in Thailand in the late 19th century (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 28.3 x 24 cm.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
In Thai (Khom).
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 89-13-395
Provenance
Gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989.
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Resource Type
Text

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