Art, Symbol & Imagination
A Shrine on the Shwe Dagon Pagoda Platform
An elaborately carved shrine rises above visitors gathered on a broad sunlit platform. Red and gold ornament spreads across its steep tiered roof and crowded facade. The original caption identifies a shrine on the platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Kelly’s illustrated account of Burma.
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R. Talbot Kelly. "A Shrine on the Shwe Dagon Pagoda Platform" [editorial title]. In Burma: Painted and Described, R. Talbot Kelly. 1905 edition; preservation facsimile completed with one illustration from the1912printing, 1905, Adam and Charles Black. Source scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0457-0004
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R. Talbot Kelly. A Shrine on the Shwe Dagon Pagoda Platform. Burma: Painted and Described. Scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0457-0004