Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1946-50

Named Person

Phunkhang Kusho

Region

Lhasa > Phunkhang House

Accession number

2001.59.2.79.1

Image Dimensions

55 X 57 mm

Phunkhang Jamphel Nyamnyid standing behind a low wooden table on which a bronze vessel and lid dating back to Srongtsen Gampo's time (7th century AD) is placed. He is wearing the insignia of an official (long earing in his left ear and his hair is done up in a top knot). Behind him is a doorway with a decorated wooden doorframe and on the right there is a pillar and decorated capital

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.59.2.77

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - - Notes on front of negative album in Richardson's hand in white: '2' 'Ramagang, 'Ushang, Tshurphu rgyal, Misc pillars'. On the reverse of negative album written in blue ink on white labels in Richardson's hand: 'Hu zhang, Pa blon chen, Pha bong ka, Nyenchen thang lho, Rva sgreng, Khro 'brug, etc. etc.' [KC 10/3/2006]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - - Notes on negative index, Folio. 79. 'do.' [Songtsen Gampo's khro (Phunkhang home).]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Richardson' hand list: Album 2. [no.] 54. 'A bronze kitchen vessel preserved in Phun-khang family and said to have come from kitchen of Srong-brtsan sgam-po; the cover is later'.

Other Information - A portrait of Phunkhang Jamphel Nyamnyid (Phun khang 'jam dpal mnyam nyid, 1920-1945 (?) standing in front of a brass casket. He is also known as Phunkhang Je trung. Phunkhang is the name of the 11th Dalai Lama's (1838-1856) family. The full name is phun tshogs khang gsar. [TS 4/4/2005]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: See 2001.59.2.106 and 2001.59.2.77 and 2001.59.2.78 for other images of this vessel [MS 17/12/2005]

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: The date range 1946-50 has been given for this image because the group of contact prints to which these images appear to be related can be dated to this period [MS 17/12/2005]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Phunkhang standing behind a bronze vessel on a table" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.2.79.1.html>.

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