EditorialGold medal of honor Gold Honorary Medal, Gold medal with eyelet and rim with 32 sapphires. An inscription on the front and a VOC ship on the reverse. Penning was commissioned by Jan Schreuder, governor of Ceylon, for the Maha Mudaliyar, Joan Aalwis Wid...
EditorialIvory figure probably representing the maha mudaliyar, head of the Porta in Sri Lanka, The maha mudaliyar formed the link between the Dutch administration and the local population and played an important role in contacts with the court of Kandy, includ...
EditorialNo. 92. Amerapoora. Another part of the Balcony of Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Linnaeus Tripe; English, 1822-1902. Date: 1855. Dimensions: 26.3 ? 34.9 cm (image/paper); 45.6 ? 58.3 cm (mount). Salted paper print, from the album "Views...
EditorialNo. 92. Amerapoora. Another part of the Balcony of Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Linnaeus Tripe; English, 1822-1902. Date: 1855. Dimensions: 26.3 ? 34.9 cm (image/paper); 45.6 ? 58.3 cm (mount). Salted paper print, from the album "Views...
EditorialRoad descending from the Shinkoonla pass from Lahoul into Zungskar.’ ‘1. Gunpotak’ [caption hGon-po-brag],’ a high mountain’ [road?]’ to Maha Kal, an ore is found at the back of it of which I have a sample.’ ‘2. Village of Kurrgya fro...
EditorialPortrait of Percy Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald, Bombay Political Service, 1909. He wears the I.P.S. uniform with the C.S.I. insignia, and stands before a draped curtain with an Indian architectuaral background beyond. Vesey-Fitzgerald joined the Bombay Ci...
EditorialLord & Lady Curzon's party. Mar-Apr, 1902. Their Excellencies Lord & Lady Curzon's party with H.H. the Nizam, Chow Mahila Palace [Hyderabad]. Formally posed group portrait on a terrace of the Chaumahalla Palace. The sitters are identified beneath the p...
EditorialRoad descending from the Shinkoonla pass from Lahoul into Zungskar.’ ‘1. Gunpotak’ [caption hGon-po-brag],’ a high mountain’ [road?]’ to Maha Kal, an ore is found at the back of it of which I have a sample.’ ‘2. Village of Kurrgya fro...
EditorialHindoo Drama. Album of 82 drawings depicting the costume of vari. 1800 - 1801. Hindoo Drama. Seeta-davee. The Wife of Rama Swammy. Dassarada Maha-Raja, King of Ayodhya. The father of Rama Swamy. Cumsalia-davee. The Mother of Rama-Swammy. Image taken f...
EditorialPortrait of Percy Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald, Bombay Political Service, 1909. He wears the I.P.S. uniform with the C.S.I. insignia, and stands before a draped curtain with an Indian architectuaral background beyond. Vesey-Fitzgerald joined the Bombay Ci...
EditorialAmerapoora: East Door of the Maha-thugea-yan-tee Pagoda. Dated: September 1-October 21, 1855. Dimensions: sheet: 25.6 x 34.6 cm (10 1/16 x 13 5/8 in.). Medium: albumen print.
EditorialGreen chirayta, king of bitters, kariyat or maha-tita, Andrographis paniculata. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialA BUDDHIST ORDINATION IN CEYLON, SRI LANKA, 1876: 1. The Candidate giving "Sil" (taking his vows) before his Gurunanse or Tutor. 2. The Maha Nayaka Unnanse, or Chief Priest. 3. The Candidate, Robed, taking the Vows in Presence of the Chapter.
EditorialGrey schist relief panel depicting the maha-pari-nirvana, the Buddha's physical passing from this world. The grieving figures that surround the dying Buddha include prnces, beggars and lay-followers. In front of the couch on which he lies are the monk ...
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