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1919,0101,0.120

ink and colours on silk

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Title

Bodhisattva carrying glass jar.

Date

850 to 899

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 172.5 centimetres, width 18 centimetres

Language / script

not applicable

Description

Scope and content : Ch. 0025. Painted silk banner of pale grey gauze covered with fine coat of silvery white paint or glaze. This has apparently prevented tracing from passing to back of silk; for while the banner is painted on both sides, the outlines (except for eye) appear only on one. Upper part showing canopy has cracked, and over it has been pasted fr. from edge of another silk painting.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.0025

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

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