Figure of the Maha Mudaliyar, anonymous, c. 1750 - c. 1800 figure The Maha Mudaliyar formed the link between Dutch administration and the local population and played an important role in contacts with the Hof van Kandy, including as an interpreter. It may be a portrait of Nicolas Dias Abayasinha Amarasekera. He was employed by Governor De Graaff from March 8, 1785 until his death in 1794. The man is wearing a tuppottiya (long cloth that is wrapped around the waist and legs a few times) and a long European jacket with over the entire length to it The front knots a row. Over his coat, he wears a
Figure of the Maha Mudaliyar, anonymous, c. 1750 - c. 1800 figure The Maha Mudaliyar formed the link between Dutch administration and the local population and played an important role in contacts with the Hof van Kandy, including as an interpreter. It may be a portrait of Nicolas Dias Abayasinha Amarasekera. He was employed by Governor De Graaff from March 8, 1785 until his death in 1794. The man is wearing a tuppottiya (long cloth that is wrapped around the waist and legs a few times) and a long European jacket with over the entire length to it The front knots a row. Over his coat, he wears a flower pattern decorated from right to left. He wears his hair tight back in a kind of bun on the back of his head. There are remains of polychromy, especially on the back of the head with the black hair, red in the neck and gilding on Tuppottiya. The man has wrapped a canvas around his right hand. The attitude of his left hand seems to indicate that he also held something in this. Kandy ivory. paint (coating). gilding (material) gilding Kandy
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