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painting, mandala

1919,0101,0.55

ink and colours on hemp

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Title

Avalokiteśvara with attendants.

Date

700 to 799

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 84 centimetres, width 96 centimetres

Language / script

not applicable

Description

Scope and content : Ch. xxii. 0017. Fr. of painting on closely woven linen, representing Avalokiteśvara seated, with attendants. Of interest owing to purely ‘Indian’ style as in Ch. lv. 0024, but in bad condition. Whole of lower half and R. side of painting lost, with L. hand and leg of central fig.; remainder broken; colour almost totally gone and drawing much effaced. Remains of brown silk damask border at top.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.xxii.0017

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

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