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1919,0101,0.17

ink and colours on silk

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Title

Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara.

Date

700 to 849

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 79.3 centimetres, width 62 centimetres

Language / script

not applicable

Description

Scope and content : Ch. xxxiii. 002. Silk painting representing Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara; without border, but otherwise complete and in good condition. Treatment of chief fig. same as in series described under *Ch. 00223; but picture of smaller size, and secondary figs. reduced to four only: Bodhisattvas of Sun and Moon in L. and R. top corners resp., and donor in each of bottom corners.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.xxxiii.002

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

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