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banner, painting

1919,0101,0.127

ink and colours on silk

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Title

Banner with flying ducks.

Date

700 to 799

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 131 centimetres, width 14.2 centimetres

Language / script

not applicable

Subject

Buddhism Animals

Description

Scope and content : Ch. 0024. Silk banner, retaining all accessories except side streamers, and in fair condition. Head-piece of plain silk, doubled; each side painted with roughly triangular floral design, showing elliptical open flower, blue, six-petalled, with green and red centre, surrounded by green leaves veined with black, the whole on a crimson background. Converging sides bordered with plain greyish-blue silk, and suspension loop at apex of printed silk with floral pattern in light yellow, green, and blue. Bottom of head-piece held between two cane stiffeners, ends of which pass into binding upon each side. The exposed length wound round with raw white silk and bound with bands of silk, dark purple, yellow, green, and red, crossing each other diagonally.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.0024

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

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