banner; painting; 幡(Chinese); 繪畫(Chinese) BM-1919-0101-0.94

Period:Tang dynasty Production date:9thC
Materials:silk, 絲綢 (Chinese),
Technique:painted
Subjects:buddha landscape 佛 (Chinese) 哺乳動物 (Chinese) 山水 (Chinese) cattle life of the buddha horse/ass
Dimensions:Height: 18 centimetres Height: 24 centimetres Width: 20 centimetres (lower part) Width: 19 centimetres (upper part)

Description:
Two fragments of a banner showing two scenes from the Life of the Buddha, in a landscape setting. The top fragment illustrates the simultaneous births of sheep, the bottom fragment a cow and a horse, and a lady in Tang costume milking the cow. Blank cartouches on alternate sides of the scenes. Ink and colour on silk.
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Comments:EnglishFrom Whitfield 1982:These fragments of a banner (see Fig. 86), as pointed out by Stein in Serindia, are clearly from the same series as those shown in Pl.31 and Pl.41, characterized by the use of opaque white pigment that has tended to flake away, and by simplified landscape forms—low hills—separating the different scenes. A charmingly domestic touch is added by the lady, with the rather full figure and costume associated with the Tang, who is milking the cow. ChineseFrom Whitfield 1982:這些幡畫的碎片(見Fig. 86)，正如斯坦因在《西域》中指出的—很明顯來自圖31 和圖41中表現的相同的系列，使用不透明的白色顔料來顯示這一特徵，而白色顔料已經脫落了。用簡單化的風景——低矮的小丘——分隔不同的場景，一個身著唐代服裝的擠牛奶的豐滿婦女，使畫面增加了令人陶醉的家庭氣息。