Kitchen Scene
Four women dressed in traditional waist-shirts (Sinh. tuppotiya) and long sleeved blouses, prepare food in an open kitchen with red interior walls, blue beams and a tiled roof. On the right two girls prepare coconut milk: one sits on the coconut scrapper whilst the other holds a machete for splitting the nut. To the left two women are pouring a liquid, likely the coconut milk, through a strainer into a large earthenware cooking pot set on rocks over a fire. An array of fresh fruits hangs from the rafters. The four woman all wear skirts decorated in the traditional Sri Lankan manner, with a saw-tooth patterned front panel (tumpal) and floral repeat patterns on the central ground.
Artwork Details
- Title: Kitchen Scene
- Artist: L. T. P. Manjusri (Sri Lankan, 1902–1982)
- Date: dated January 17, 1979
- Culture: Sinhala
- Medium: Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 20 × 27 7/8 in. (50.8 × 70.8 cm)
Image (height indicated includes feet overlapping painting edge): 20 1/2 × 27 7/8 in. (52.1 × 70.8 cm)
Sheet: 22 × 28 5/8 in. (55.9 × 72.7 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Lin Lougheed Collection, Gift of Lin Lougheed, 2016
- Object Number: 2016.754.4
- Rights and Reproduction: © Manjusri Family
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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