Period:Unknown Production date:5thC-6thC
Materials:wood, 木 (Chinese),
Technique:painted, carved, 雕刻 (Chinese),
Subjects:buddha lotus 佛 (Chinese) 供養人 (Chinese) 蓮花 (Chinese) attendant
Dimensions:Height: 28.20 centimetres
Description:
Wooden panel (the left-hand leaf of a small triptych) carved in relief with scenes arranged in three registers: at the top is a standing Buddha with an attendant holding a parasol; in the middle is a Buddha standing on a lotus flower, worshipped by three kneeling figures; at the bottom are two separate scenes showing a standing Buddha holding a staff on the left, and two male kneeling donors on the right. This small panel was originally the left-hand leaf of a portable shrine made of three panels. It still bears traces of painting.
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![图片[1]-panel; shrine; 畫板(Chinese); 寺(Chinese); triptych(left-hand leaf) BM-MAS.1000-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00012962_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-panel; shrine; 畫板(Chinese); 寺(Chinese); triptych(left-hand leaf) BM-MAS.1000-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00322322_001.jpg)
Comments:Zwalf 1985This is the left-hand leaf of a small triptych shrine which, when closed, would have presented the appearance of a smooth cylinder tapering to a point. The middle register shows one of the legends of Śākyamuni’s previous lives, when as a young Brahmin student, he knelt before Buddha Dīpaṃkara spreading his hair beneath his feet and vowed to become a Buddha himself. More circumstantial depictions of the occasion, on which he also obtained flowers from a young woman, the future Yaśodharā, in exchange for a promise of marriage in subsequent lives, are found in stone carvings from Gandhara (cf. no. 15).
Materials:wood, 木 (Chinese),
Technique:painted, carved, 雕刻 (Chinese),
Subjects:buddha lotus 佛 (Chinese) 供養人 (Chinese) 蓮花 (Chinese) attendant
Dimensions:Height: 28.20 centimetres
Description:
Wooden panel (the left-hand leaf of a small triptych) carved in relief with scenes arranged in three registers: at the top is a standing Buddha with an attendant holding a parasol; in the middle is a Buddha standing on a lotus flower, worshipped by three kneeling figures; at the bottom are two separate scenes showing a standing Buddha holding a staff on the left, and two male kneeling donors on the right. This small panel was originally the left-hand leaf of a portable shrine made of three panels. It still bears traces of painting.
IMG
Comments:Zwalf 1985This is the left-hand leaf of a small triptych shrine which, when closed, would have presented the appearance of a smooth cylinder tapering to a point. The middle register shows one of the legends of Śākyamuni’s previous lives, when as a young Brahmin student, he knelt before Buddha Dīpaṃkara spreading his hair beneath his feet and vowed to become a Buddha himself. More circumstantial depictions of the occasion, on which he also obtained flowers from a young woman, the future Yaśodharā, in exchange for a promise of marriage in subsequent lives, are found in stone carvings from Gandhara (cf. no. 15).
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