1919,0101,0.137

Description

Scope and content : Painted silk banner of Indian type, recalling series *Ch. lv. 004. Upper end of painting and accessories lost, remainder well preserved. Subject: Mañjuśrī; cf. Ch. lv. 0030. Fig., ¾ R., stands on conventional yellow-centred pink and white lotus. R. hand carries sword over shoulder, L. arm raised from elbow and hand held well out, palm uppermost. Body slim-waisted and curving like those of *Ch. lv. 004 series, and face of same type. Legs stiffly draped in long skirt of striped green, red, yellow, and white over laṅgōṭī of chocolate brown; girdle of pink and white scroll-patterned stuff with green and yellow ends; stole of chocolate brown and yellow; red scarf across breast; narrow band of greenish blue, double or triple, spotted with white and strung with two lozenge-shaped metal orns., hanging from shoulder to knee. Tiarā/?/ a single circlet set with three high triangular gold orns, and lotuses at ears; no anklets or armlets. Hair done in high black cone on top of head and loose ringlets on shoulders. Flesh painted dark olive-green throughout, with traces of red on inner ear, lips, palms of hands, and soles of feet. Between oval halo and blank inscr. cartouche in R. top corner, what appears to be tail of snake.