View of a fire screen, F. Beato Limited, C Road, Mandalay, Burma (now Myanmar)

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of a fire screen, F. Beato Limited, C Road, Mandalay, Burma (now Myanmar)

Date:

before 8 May 1903

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print épreuve argentique à la gélatine

Dimensions:

comp.: 15.0 x 15.5 cm secondary support: 24.9 x 20.1 cm

Reference number:

PH1983:0299:096

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

labelled, numbered, and imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, u.l.: "No. 92. / Carved Fire mantle Piece, / 6 feet 8 inches long by 4 feet 9 inches high, width on top 15 inches. / Price Rs. 120" labelled, numbered, and imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, u.r.: "No. 92 (a). / Carved Fire Place Screen on 2 elephants. / Height 30 inches over all. By 25 ½ inches wide. / Price Rs. 30. / H. Gilded lamp stand, / Rs. 25 / I. Gilded Betclnut Box, / Rs. 9 / J. Gilded Yahandat, / Rs. 5 / K. Gilded serpent and Grantama, / Rs. 8. / L. Gilded Oke. / Rs. 15. / M. Gilded Peacock stand / Rs. 14." inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and red ink, on the photograph, u.l. to u.r.: "h i j k l m"

Location:

Mandalay; Mandalay (Division); Myanmar;

Subject:

sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

reliefs
figures (representations)
statues
furniture
carvings
mantel
screen (furniture)
furnishings
fire screen (furniture)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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