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Poses, gestures and iconographic details


"Open manner" of wearing clothing

In this case the outer clothing covers only the left shoulder, leaving the right bare. The free part of the cloth is arranged as a narrow band of pleats on the chest. In Sukhothai art this pleated edge reaches to the navel, in the art of the Far North to the left nipple.

 

 

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