Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Sho > Doring

Accession number

1998.286.269.1

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

The small Chinese-style building in Potala Shö, in which is the pillar inscribed with the defeat of the Gurkhas in 1792.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Intensifier Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.258

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.258

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] LV. [Subject of Chapter] Nepal [Subject of Illustration] Q258 (e) The small Chinese house in Potala Shö, in which is the pillar inscribed with the defeat of the Gurkhas in 1792. [Where placed - book page] I, 42. [Remarks] L.273"

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: see 1998.286.22 [BL.Q.22] same image, but different date and event commemorated: 'Q.22 (k). Chinese house in Potala Shö, containing pillar recording defeat of the Dzungarians (Chungkar) in 1720 AD.' Need to check which reference is accurate [MS 4/8/2004]

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'Tibet Past & Present', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, facing p.42:"The defeat of the Gurkhas is recorded on the pillar seen within this building. Below the Potala"

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Chinese-style structure in Potala Sho housing doring" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.269.1.html>.

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Chinese-style structure in Potala Sho housing doring