Castle shape lantern
- Object :
- Castle shape lantern
- Art style :
- Lanna
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- Era age :
- Lanna era
- Characteristic :
- These lamps were made of bronze, covered with gold and used for worshipping Phra That Hariphunchai. They have Northern castle shapes with high base to support the body, Lanna style openwork. There is a small front door carved with floral and Thai patterns. There are two persons standing in front on both sides of the door with two hands joined together in respecting gesture. Both wear ankle-length skirts and accessories. There is a square frame in the middle of the other three sides; each frame contains four flora petals and each corner decorated with Naga with wings floating downward. The upper part is two-layered roofs with lotus bud at its peak.
The base of the lamp was designed to have smooth wooden base with pierced trough panel but without decorative moulding which is the common Lanna style. Outer base of the lamp was engraved with Yuan letters (Northern Thai) stated “Thai minor era 870 (2501 B.E.), priest Ratanapanya (with) sacramental spouse Wat Tonkaew invited “Yangwan” believers who lived in the West, East, South and North to collect bronze for moulding castle weighed 58000 (about 60 kilograms) which would be used as lantern to worship Buddha’s relics until 50 years.”
The candlesticks inside was also engraved with the same language and alphabets stated “I had molded the lantern as a worship of Buddha’s relics, desiring to be born as a buddhist saint under holy house of Metteyya Bodhisattva.” These bronze lanterns was made in the government service period of Chao Muang Kaew or Tilokpanuddatiraj (2038 - 2068 B.E.). In Chinakarnmalipakorn Annals, it was stated that he also allowed constructing main temple and Maha Winitchai pavilion in Wat Phra That Hariphunchai. - Current :
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- History :
- Moved from Wat Phra That Hariphunchai
- Presented at :
- Hariphunchai National Museum, Lamphun Province
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