Period:Unknown
Materials:silver, leather, gold (?), metal,
Technique:gilded
Dimensions:Height: 79.50 centimetres (a-d combined) Weight: 8305 grammes (a-d combined) Width: 41 centimetres (a-d combined) Depth: 66.50 centimetres (a-d combined)
Description:
Saddle (a) made of silver, leather, gilt; together with cloth saddle-cover (b) and two gilt metal stirrups (c-d).
IMG
![图片[1]-saddle; saddle-cover; stirrup BM-As1979-Q.54.a-d-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01298418_001.jpg)
Comments:Transferred unnumbered from Oriental Dept. in 1979; registered in Ethno.Dept. as “Q79As.54”. Ethnography Dept. “Q”-Register simply states “HM the King” – info taken from a label apparently with the saddle at time of transfer.Possibly the saddle mentioned in list of Tibetan material given by Dalai Lama to George V in 1913 and deposited on long-term loan to BM in the same year.See correspondence C.Griffith (Royal Collections) and Ethno.Dept. staff in “Royal Collections” Secretariat file. (AMD,7/2001).
Materials:silver, leather, gold (?), metal,
Technique:gilded
Dimensions:Height: 79.50 centimetres (a-d combined) Weight: 8305 grammes (a-d combined) Width: 41 centimetres (a-d combined) Depth: 66.50 centimetres (a-d combined)
Description:
Saddle (a) made of silver, leather, gilt; together with cloth saddle-cover (b) and two gilt metal stirrups (c-d).
IMG
Comments:Transferred unnumbered from Oriental Dept. in 1979; registered in Ethno.Dept. as “Q79As.54”. Ethnography Dept. “Q”-Register simply states “HM the King” – info taken from a label apparently with the saddle at time of transfer.Possibly the saddle mentioned in list of Tibetan material given by Dalai Lama to George V in 1913 and deposited on long-term loan to BM in the same year.See correspondence C.Griffith (Royal Collections) and Ethno.Dept. staff in “Royal Collections” Secretariat file. (AMD,7/2001).
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