Arts in Southeast Asia

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Minaret of Masjid Kampong Kling

The Southeast Asian-styled mosques are different from Indian or Persian masjids. The mosque has a square plan with 4 pillars supporting the sloping roof with the wooden beam supporting the tile roof without any dome. Other interesting point is the minaret that has stacked body with the Chinese sloping roof at the top. The shape of the minaret is similar to Chinese pagoda. At the same time, the minaret is also look alike the Dargarh type tower in Nagapattinam in South India

Malaysia

Art period
Dutch Colonization Period
Age
17th – 18th century
Type of artwork
Architecture
The Main Chedi
Chiang Rai
ArchitectureThe Main Chedi

This is a castle shape chedi. It has one layer flat base in a square plan, one layer lotus base. Next up is a reunthat, decorated with stucco and various patterns in a square plan on a lotus base with arches. The top has a sloping roof. Next up was another three layers lotus base supporting the bell, spire, minaret and tiered umbrella in a circular plan.

Wat Phra Borom That Don Tao
Lampang
ArchitectureWat Phra Borom That Don Tao

This is a bell shape chei. The bottom base is the lotus base in the square plan. Next up is a three-layer flat base set, lotus base, three layers flat base in a circular plan, bell supporting base, the bell and throne in a circular plan, cylinders, spire, prominent minaret, lotus petals on the floor of minaret and seven layers tiered umbrella. It also has a line of walls with bai sema shape backrests, East West and North arches with Buddha images.

The Main Chedi
Chiang Rai
ArchitectureThe Main Chedi

This chedi is a single pointed top castle shaped chedi. The bottom base is in a square plan. It supports a four layers flat base in the twenty eight corner plan, two layers lotus base in the twenty eight corner plan, reunthat with four standing Buddha images arches in the twenty eight corner plan, three layers twelve corners lotus base, the bell and throne in circular plan, spire and minaret.

The Main Chedi
Chiang Mai
ArchitectureThe Main Chedi

This chedi is a surrounding elephant chedi. The base at the bottom has traces of an elephant decoration surrounded by half-body elephants on all four sides. Next up is a lotus base decorated with five arches on each side, for a total of twenty arches, a bell in a circular plan with various patterns decorated, square throne, and the spire that the upper part had been broken.

The Castle Shape Chedi
Chiang Mai
ArchitectureThe Castle Shape Chedi

This is a castle shape chedi. It has a flat base and lotus base in the many corners plan support, a base that supporting the reunthat, four arches with Buddha images and decorative pattern on the pillars. Next up was the reun yod that was made into a layer house with walls, windows, castle model at the corners and sloping roof but the top part was missing.

The Main Chedi
Chiang Mai
ArchitectureThe Main Chedi

This chedi is a bell shape chedi. It has square base with thirty-six corners. At the very bottom next to the floor appears the top edge of the balcony backboard. Next up is the three layers main base in the square plan, adding more angles which is a lotus base at the second and third floor. The corner is decorated with stupicas on the first and second floor and purnaghata(abundance pot) on the third floor. Next up is a two layers invers lotus base in an octagonal plan, three layers flat circular base, the bell, short cone shape spire and long minaret.

The Small Chedi
Mae Hong Son
ArchitectureThe Small Chedi

It has flat base and lotus base in octagon plan, arches on all four sides, two layers lotus base supporting the bell, spire and minaret.

Pottery votive tablet
Bangkok
SculpturePottery votive tablet

It is a votive tablet that looks like a triangle shape. In the middle is a Buddha image Sheltered by a Naga. The right side is believed to be Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva and the left side is Prachya Paramita. There is a curved frame surrounds the three sculptures and it is supported by a lotus base.