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Fragment of painting on paper showing part of a pipa floating in the sky.
Date
851 to 900
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Measurement
height 18 centimetres, width 33 centimetres
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Scope and content : Ch. 0037. a–d. Four frs. of paper painting, of which (a) evidently separate small picture, and (b), (c), and (d) parts probably of larger one. (c) shows loops of black floating stole, and bent-back head of guitar with curious fan-shaped projection at top (?). 7″ × 6″.
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DHMG.
Stein site number
Ch.0037.c
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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