Man’s Lower Wrapped Garment (phaa nung / phaa lai khain thong)
- Culture
- Indian
- Associated
- for the Thai market
- Date
- 1780–1820
- Classification
- Costume & clothing, textiles
- Collection
- Asian Art
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 37 × 122 1/2 in. (94 × 311.2 cm)
- Credit Line
- The Langenberg Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 40:2023
Provenance
- 2019
Funaguchi Kazuo, Tokyo, Japan [1]
2019 - 2023
Thomas Murray (born 1951), Mill Valley, CA, USA, purchased from Funaguchi Kazuo [2]
2023 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Thomas Murray [3]
Notes:
[1] This provenance information was provided by Thomas Murray to Philip Hu in person on January 5, 2023 when Mr. Murray visited St. Louis. This provenance information is also corroborated in an e-mail message dated May 18, 2019 from Thomas Murray to Emma Natalya Stein, assistant curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C., when the object was originally offered to that museum [copy in SLAM document files].
[2] Thomas Murray paid for this purchase from Funaguchi Kazuo on March 25, 2019 during the Asia Week art fair, New York, NY [see note 1].
[3] Invoice dated May 30, 2023 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Meeting of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 20, 2023.
Funaguchi Kazuo, Tokyo, Japan [1]
2019 - 2023
Thomas Murray (born 1951), Mill Valley, CA, USA, purchased from Funaguchi Kazuo [2]
2023 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Thomas Murray [3]
Notes:
[1] This provenance information was provided by Thomas Murray to Philip Hu in person on January 5, 2023 when Mr. Murray visited St. Louis. This provenance information is also corroborated in an e-mail message dated May 18, 2019 from Thomas Murray to Emma Natalya Stein, assistant curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C., when the object was originally offered to that museum [copy in SLAM document files].
[2] Thomas Murray paid for this purchase from Funaguchi Kazuo on March 25, 2019 during the Asia Week art fair, New York, NY [see note 1].
[3] Invoice dated May 30, 2023 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Meeting of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 20, 2023.
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