Overview
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Banner with flying ducks.
Date
700 to 799
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Measurement
height 131 centimetres, width 14.2 centimetres
Material
Language / script
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
Historical information
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Find site identifier
DHMG.
Stein site number
Ch.0024
Find site description
Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
References
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