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painting

1919,0101,0.62

ink and colours on silk

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Title

Contest between Sariputra and Raudraksa.

Date

750 to 899

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 63.5 centimetres, width 46.7 centimetres

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

Buddhism Animals

Description

Scope and content : Ch. lv. 002. Fr. of silk painting, with Chin. inscr., showing part of Jātaka scene (unidentified). Incomplete; all sides and much broken, but otherwise in fair condition.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.lv.002

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

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