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Siam
Views of Bangkok, Paknam, Rangoon, and Mandalay

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographer: Philip Klier (active ca. 1880-1911). Views of Bangkok, Paknam, Rangoon, and Mandalay. 1906. 22 gelatin silver and collodion prints, mounted to boards. Each ca. 22,5 x 28,5 cm (28,5 x 40 cm). Most with handwritten caption in black ink below the image on the mount, some with the photographer’s studio information in the negative.

This group of photographs records significant religious, architectural, and urban sites in Siam and British Burma during a documented journey in late 1906. Among the Bangkok scenes are canal-side dwellings near the Golden Mount (Wat Saket), temple complexes such as Wat Pho and Wat Suthat, and detailed views of the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaeo. Further images show the island temple of Phra Samut Chedi at Paknam, the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Rangoon from multiple vantage points including the Royal Lake and Cantonment Gardens, and distinctive scenes of Mandalay, including palace walls and a large monastic structure. – Some light scuff marks and minor oxidation along the edges of some prints, otherwise all in very good condition.