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Subject:Help identify and date antique Thai Painting/script
Posted By: Michael Fri, Feb 21, 2020 IP: 162.238.113.137

Can anyone help me identify the date of this painting and what the script on the back signifies?
It is all hand done and very old







Subject:Re: Help identify and date antique Thai Painting/script
Posted By: Bill H Sat, Feb 22, 2020

Appears to be Thai, perhaps a book of scriptures or something else of significance to Buddhism. In Thailand, Burma and Laos, relatives traditionally presented temples richly hand-decorated books containing the ordination rules for monks whenever young boys in the family reached puberty and underwent the tonsure ceremony when entering the monkhood for a period to live and learn their religion firsthand. Unfortunately, I can't help with the translation, but perhaps others can. Here's a Thai horoscope in the antique style, which I picked up at a Bangkok art show in the early 1990s. The script isn't quite as formal but the painting style of the celestials is somewhat similar.

Best regards,

Bill H.



Subject:Re: Help identify and date antique Thai Painting/script
Posted By: michael Tue, Feb 25, 2020

Thank You for the info!!

Subject:Re: Help identify and date antique Thai Painting/script
Posted By: Paul Sun, Feb 23, 2020

Bill H's example is indeed Thai, but the original poster's is Khmer/Cambodian, which I cannot read. Culturally the same, with the Ramakien (Thai Ramayana) and Theravada Buddhist elements.

Subject:Re: Help identify and date antique Thai Painting/script
Posted By: Bill H Tue, Feb 25, 2020

Appreciate you having my back on that point.
Bill H.

Subject:Re: Help identify and date antique Thai Painting/script
Posted By: michael Tue, Feb 25, 2020

Thank You for the info!!


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