Thai Style Hand-Carved Architectural Relief with Makara and Mythological Fish

Item Details

Thai, Southeast Asian
Architectural-scale relief carving, possibly a lintel, with mythological fish and elephant-headed makara over foliate ground
Carved wood
Unmarked
Vintage

A Thai style hand-carved wood relief panel. This piece, carved from a large in-tact portion of a tree trunk cut long-ways, appears in the form of a lintel or other architectural decoration. It depicts a makara in the form of an elephant-headed fish face-to-face with another mythological fish or other sea creature, over a layered ground of swirling foliage rendered in intricate detail. The relief has been carved from a single piece of wood, with the exception of the right fish’s eye and wing-like projections on each form that are affixed with wooden pegs. There is hardware to the verso for hanging the piece.

Condition

- accretion, scratches, and cracks to wood throughout; some protruding pieces are loose on their pegs; repair to fin on right side fish creature to re-attach split piece of wood, with other broken edges with missing wood including to right fin, teeth, and scattered pointed edges throughout; verso of carving is raw tree bark and wood.

Dimensions

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Item #

ITMG523502