This is the Bureau of the Royal Household of Thailand's own custodial record, documenting its administration of Wat Phra Kaew and its custody of the Emerald Buddha since the image's installation there in 1784. As the holding institution's own standing account it is authoritative for the image's custody and the temple's role in the Thai monarchy's ceremonial life, including the seasonal changing of the image's robes performed by the King. Its limit is that it is an institutional custodial record, not a scholarly art-historical or religious-historical study, so a claim about the image's contested earlier origins before it reached Bangkok needs a source outside this custodial account.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Custodial self-account of a royal household's own holdings. A royal household's own record sits at tier 2, the same institutional-self-account shape as a museum, temple or private holder. NotesBureau of the Royal Household of Thailand's own custodial record for the object it holds. A standing institutional or private-holder record, not a scholarly publication; use for provenance and holding-institution facts, not for the object's own history or meaning.
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyBureau of the Royal Household of Thailand
Custodian BasisThe Bureau's own account of its administration of Wat Phra Kaew and custody of the Emerald Buddha since 1784.
Citation
PublisherBureau of the Royal Household of Thailand
URLhttps://www.royaloffice.th/en/home/
Source Typeroyal household
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Bangkok directly: "earlier origins before it reached Bangkok needs a source outside this custodial account."
Claims Backed By This Source (26 claims)
This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 10 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Figures, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.
- Custodians & Museums, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Empires & Polities, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Artifacts & Relics, 1 claims: 1 holds.
- Cities, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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