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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
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
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
Rimsherd of a ceramic vessel. The brown glaze is crackled and has partially flaked off.

Title Rimsherd of a ceramic vessel. The brown…

Pressmark MAS.821.b

Item type bowl
Sherd of a ceramic vessel with a cream coloured glaze mainly on the inside. The glaze is crackled and large pieces have flaked off.

Title Sherd of a ceramic vessel with a…

Pressmark MAS.841

Item type vessel
Rimsherd of a ceramic vessel with a cream coloured glaze mainly on the inside. On the outside, the glaze extends about 1cm over the rim.

Title Rimsherd of a ceramic vessel with a…

Pressmark MAS.842

Item type vessel
Sherd of a ceramic vessel with creamy white crackled glaze.

Title Sherd of a ceramic vessel with creamy…

Pressmark MAS.843

Item type vessel
Fragment of a porcelain bowl with a thick pale green glaze.

Title Fragment of a porcelain bowl with a…

Pressmark MAS.844

Item type vessel
Rimsherd of a porcelain bowl with a white glaze on both sides and a slightly outward turned rim.

Title Rimsherd of a porcelain bowl with a…

Pressmark MAS.845

Item type bowl
Rimsherd of a ceramic vessel with a black glaze on both sides. The latter is crackled and flaked off in some places.

Title Rimsherd of a ceramic vessel with a…

Pressmark MAS.850

Item type vessel

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Manuscript (inc. blockprint) 871 Artefact 26 Painting 14 Textile 8 Photograph 1
paper fragment 841 silk fragment 27 vessel 23 patch 10 scroll 7 textile 4 bowl 3 painting 2 Fragment 1 booklet 1 pothi 1 printing-out paper 1
manuscript, ink on paper 888 ink on silk 3 embroidered silk 1 ink and colours on paper 1 ink and colours on silk 1
Buddhism 17 Illustrated 17 Daoism 9 paper fragment 7 Official 3 Textile 3 colophons 2 Animals 1 Legal 1 Medicine 1 Sakyamuni 1 Settlement 1 Social and Economic 1 architecture 1 caves 1
Dunhuang Mogao 893 Dunhuang Limes 9 Vashshahri 8 Kharakhoto 2
British Library 892 British Museum 29

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