Small Thai Manuscript chest decorated in a black and gold design. There are three painted panels in the front, three at the back and one one either side. The base consists of two platforms which are decorated with floral motifs and geometrical patterns. The front panels show an ox drinking water from a lake on the lateral panels and a tiger on the middle panel. On one side there are two monkeys interacting with each other; the other side has a similar scene but with an additional hare looking at the monkeys. One back panel shows two humans talking to each other with one crouching and the other hanging off a cliff, the middle panel has a tiger attacking a crane-like bird and the third panel has two birds with human heads. All the panels have floral backgrounds. The top section has motifs too but the lid has no decoration on it. The chest is 82cm x 29cm at its base with a height of 34cm. It is unknown when this chest came into the possession of Quaritch Wales.
The chest is housed in the Reading Room.
"Thailand - Key to the Coming Attack on Japan" by Quaritch Wales from ASIA, September 1942, pp.529-532.
"The Aborigines of India" by Brian Houghton Hodgson. Printed by J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1847. Title page gives name of work as "Essay the First: Kocch, Bódo and Dhimál Tribes in Three Parts. Part I - Vocabulary, Part II - Grammar, Part III - Location, Numbers, Creed, Customs, Condition, and Physical and Moral Characteristics of the People". This work is heavily annotated by Hodgson, possibly a proof copy in which he is writing corrections. Printed bound book with handwritten material, 1847.
Hodgson Brian Houghton 1800-1894 Orientalist"The Administration of Northern Peoples: The USSR" by Terence Armstrong, Reprinted from R. St. J. Macdonald (ed.), The Arctic Frontier, University of Toronto Press, 1966.
Armstrong Terence Edward 1920-1996 Polar explorerThe Ancient Chinese Chronicles and Growth of Historical Ideals by Piet van der Loon from Historical writing on the peoples of Asia: Historians of China and Japan (1961), 24-30.
Loon Piet van der 1920-2002"The archaeological excavation in Inbur , Bang Chan sub-district, Inburi district, Singburi Province", by Pathommaroek Ketthat. Borankadee (archaeology) 6(vol.4) June 1976, pp.65-88. Photocopy of Thai article.
Kētthat Pathommarœ̄k"The Archaeological Lecture" - a lighthearted article about attending an archaeological lecture. With hand-drawn illustrations of "Miss O'Lithia", "Natufian Herrings" and "Globular lug-handled-urn".
"The archaeological survey and excavation of Mueng Pra Rot, Dong Sri Mahapot, Sri Mahapot District, Prachinburi province, Thailand", Vol.2. By Banchob Tiamtad. Silpakorn 13(Vol.1) May 1969, pp.48-59. Photocopy of Thai article.
Tiamtad Banchob"The archaeological survey and excavation report of Mueng Pra Rot, Panasnikom District, Chonburi province, Thailand". By Banchob Tiamtad. Silpakorn 13(Vol.5) January 1970, pp.79-87. Photocopy of Thai article.
Tiamtad BanchobThe terminations of the archaic Chinese pronouns by Angus Graham - draft article published as The archaic Chinese pronouns in Asia Major 15/1, 1969, or Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1973.
Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991