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| Keywords: Lion throne, Mandalay Palace.jpg en Photograph of the Lion Throne in the Royal Palace at Mandalay probably taken by Felice Beato in c 1890 Mandalay the second largest city in Burma was founded in 1857 by King Mindon Min who shifted his capital here from Amarapura and became the country's last great royal capital Thibaw was the last king of Burma and ruled from 1878 until 1885 when Mandalay was annexed by the British Empire and he was exiled to south India together with his queen Supayalat His throne dominated the Great Audience Hall and was one of eight in the palace It is a magnificent gilded wooden structure topped with a pediment decorated with flaring ornamental forms known as saing-baung derived from the haunches of a wild ox It is decorated with floral designs glass mosaic work and carved imagery including divine beings astrological symbols and lions from which the throne takes its name The imagery was designed to express the universality of the monarch and links the throne to the heavenly realm of Thagyamin the king of the gods and Mount Meru the sacred mountain at the centre of the world in Burmese Buddhist cosmology It dates from 1857-61 and is now in the National Museum at Rangoon Yangon The photograph is from an album devoted almost entirely to Lord Elgin's Burma tour of November to December 1898 Victor Alexander Bruce 1849-1917 ninth Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl of Kincardine served as Viceroy of India between 1894 and 1899 http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/k/019pho0000015s6u00027000 html Beato Felice 1825-c 1907 1890 Public domain PD-old Mandalay Palace Photographs of Myanmar by Felice Beato | ||||
