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Re: Angkor Wat Temple Art need help- Thank you

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Oct 13, 2014 (11:54 PM)

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These are so-called "temple rubbings" depicting traditionally costumed Thai dancers in poses from the Ramakien, the Thai national dance based on the Hindu epic, "The Ramayana". You can find many of these items on the internet, particularly in spots such as eBay, labeled as temple rubbings, some claimed to be from Cambodia despite the styles being somewhat different. Here's a picture of a rubbing acquired in Laos during the early 1970s and attributed to Ankor Wat. However, there are Khmer temple complexes inside Thailand, which could have been the source of this piece.

Wat Po Near the Palace in Bangkok has some reproductions of Khmer relief sculpture, which art also is a source of rubbings. It seems from estate sales in the USA recently that a majority of soldiers who visited Bangkok or served in Thailand during the Vietnam War took some of these souvenirs back home to remember “Khrungthep Maha Nakhorn”, the Grand City of Angels, as the Thais call their capital.

Ankor Wat is a World Heritage Site under UNESCO protection, so no real rubbings come out of Cambodia legally today.

Best regards,

Bill H.



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