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PaintingThe mural painting in Vihara Nam Tam
The style of painting in Nam Tam Vihara featured red, green, yellow, black and white, with the prominent people figures dressed in Burmese style, while the common villagers dressed in the folk Lanna and Burmese styles. The landscape paintings used the curve line to divide the picture. There are Lanna alphabet inscriptions on the story of Indra and Samavadee. There is a painting of Triphum story which is displayed as a pole in the middle of Indra's Prasat in heaven with the sun and the moon revolving around it.
SculpturePhra Chao Lantong
This Buddha image is seated in the full-lotus seat on a supine lotus base with large petals and lotus stamens. It displays the Subduing Mara posture. It has a small oval face, small knotted hairs, flaming halo, narrow forehead, little mouth and the groove on the sides with a delicate body and large split ends centipede fang shaped sangha. It was enshrined within Ku Prasart.
SculptureThe Ku Phra Chao Lan Tong
The Ku Phra Chao Lan Tong has a base consisting of two lotus bases overlapping in the Yok Gej plan without Look Kaew Ok Kai. The bottom was added to decorate the Lanna stucco pattern, including flowers, leaves, and animal pictures inserted. Ruen That is a square room with three corners on each side. There is a Yok Gej in two corner arch, and each corner has a decorative pattern. Ruen That has a lotus base at the bottom and a lotus tiara on the top. There is a Phra Chao Lan Tong house inside with f a line angel’s decoration in the arch. Ruen That is a combination of a stacked floor and sloping roofs, which are popular styles in Lanna art.
