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banner, painting

1919,0101,0.142

ink and colours on paper

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Title

Avalokiteśvara.

Date

851 to 950

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 38.5 centimetres, width 11.5 centimetres

Language / script

not applicable

Description

Scope and content : Ch. xx. 0013. Paper banner, cut out in parts like those of silk banners and pasted together. Triangular top filled with drawing of lotus-flower and leaves; streamers painted dark grey with running stem and leaf orn. in yellow; remainder uncoloured.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.xx.0013

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

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