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Paradise of Amitābha.

Title Paradise of Amitābha.

Material ink and colours on silk

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.37

Item type painting
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha.

Title Scenes from the Life of the Buddha.

Material ink and colours on silk

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.95

Item type painting
Fragment of painting on paper showing musicians.

Title Fragment of painting on paper showing musicians.

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.221.4

Item type Fragment, painting
Mounted fragments.

Title Mounted fragments.

Material ink and colours on silk

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.351

Item type painting
Fragments: a temple building, landscape, fragment of a horse.

Title Fragments: a temple building, landscape, fragment of…

Material ink and colours on silk

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.352

Item type painting
Small figure next to a brown border.

Title Small figure next to a brown border.

Material ink and colours on silk

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.353

Item type painting
Mounted fragments.

Title Mounted fragments.

Material ink and colours on silk

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.354

Item type painting
Khotanese manuscript fragment

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Khot S 43a
Tibetan manuscript

Title Tibetan manuscript

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Tib J 45

Item type pothi
no image available

Title Tibetan manuscript

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Tib M 1057
no image available

Title Tibetan manuscript

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Tib M 1058
Hanging silk embroidery.

Title Hanging silk embroidery.

Material embroidered silk

Pressmark MAS,0.1129

Item type textile
Round ornament made of red clay with a white slip. The ornament represents a jewel and consists of a bigger stone in the centre set within a plain band and a bead border. It was most likely part of a BodhisattvaԳ attire.

Title Round ornament made of red clay with…

Pressmark MAS.254
Fragment of a statue, made of red clay with visible traces of a light-coloured slip. The curled shape, here with two notched lines at the borders, is most commonly addressed as cloud ornament. Often it is part of the border of a halo. The ornament can be curled clockwise or anti-clockwise.

Title Fragment of a statue, made of red…

Pressmark MAS.266
Sherd of a ceramic vessel with a cream coloured glaze. The outside is decorated with a single brown line, the inside with a decoration in brown and blue.

Title Sherd of a ceramic vessel with a…

Pressmark MAS.334

Item type vessel
Sherd of a thick-walled clay vessel. Both sides are covered with a pale green glaze.

Title Sherd of a thick-walled clay vessel. Both…

Pressmark MAS.582

Item type vessel
Rim sherd of a thick-walled clay vessel. Both sides of the vessel have been glazed, with the glaze being brown close to the rim and vlue for the rest of the body.

Title Rim sherd of a thick-walled clay vessel.…

Pressmark MAS.583

Item type vessel
Rim sherd a clay vessel. Both sides of the vessel are covered with a speckled glaze, which is brown close to the rim and blue for the rest of the body

Title Rim sherd a clay vessel. Both sides…

Pressmark MAS.584

Item type vessel
Wall sherd of a vessel made of light grey clay. The vessel is covered with a thick green glaze on both sides which is much crackled.

Title Wall sherd of a vessel made of…

Pressmark MAS.585

Item type vessel
Rim sherd of a clay vessel covered with a dark brown glaze on both sides.

Title Rim sherd of a clay vessel covered…

Pressmark MAS.586

Item type vessel
Wall sherd of a clay vessel covered with a dark brown and speckled glaze on the outside.

Title Wall sherd of a clay vessel covered…

Pressmark MAS.587

Item type vessel
Rim sherd of a vessel covered with a thick dark brown glaze on both sides.

Title Rim sherd of a vessel covered with…

Pressmark MAS.588

Item type vessel
Wall sherd of a vessel with a pale-green glaze. The inside was decorated with a moulded scrollwork design before being glazed.

Title Wall sherd of a vessel with a…

Pressmark MAS.589

Item type vessel
Fragment of a ceramic bowl. About one quarter of the base and the wall are still intact which makes it possible to make out the original shape of the vessel. The base has a large footring, the rim is slightly outward turned. The brown glaze does not cover the whole vessel but goes close to the footring on the outside and close to the base on the inside.

Title Fragment of a ceramic bowl. About one…

Pressmark MAS.821.a

Item type bowl

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Manuscript (inc. blockprint) 903 Artefact 28 Painting 19 Textile 13 Photograph 1
paper fragment 853 scroll 28 silk fragment 27 vessel 23 patch 10 painting 7 textile 4 bowl 3 Fragment 1 pothi 1 printing-out paper 1
manuscript, ink on paper 939 ink and colours on silk 6 ink on silk 3 embroidered silk 1 ink and colours on paper 1
Buddhism 40 seal 18 Illustrated 17 Daoism 9 paper fragment 7 Official 3 Textile 3 colophons 2 Animals 1 Avalokitesvara 1 Legal 1 Medicine 1 Sakyamuni 1 Settlement 1 Social and Economic 1 architecture 1 bodhisattva 1 caves 1
Dunhuang Mogao 949 Dunhuang Limes 9 Vashshahri 8 Akterek 2 Kharakhoto 2
British Library 943 British Museum 36

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Chinese (lang.) 883 Chinese (script) 883 not applicable 23 Tibetan (lang.) 2 Tibetan (script) 2 Brahmi (script) 1 Khotanese (lang.) 1 forged 1
Stein 1906-8 979
Non-Buddhist Documents from Dunhuang in the British Library (Boltz) 2 The Art of Central Asia I (Whitfield) 2 British Library Stein Photos Part IV: 392/29 (Falconer) 1 Chinese Manuscripts from Dunhuang in the British Library (Giles 1957) 1 Tibetan Manuscripts from Dunhuang I (de le Vallée Poussin) 1

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