Period:Unknown Production date:8thC
Materials:wood
Technique:painted
Dimensions:Height: 24.30 centimetres Width: 12.70 centimetres Depth: 1.80 centimetres
Description:
Wooden panel painted on both sides. The top corners of the rectangular panel have been cut off so that it has a triangular shape on one side. Recto: Shown here are four figures in two registers above each other, always two of them sitting together and looking at each other. Only the top figure on the right is discernible and is depicted as sitting cross-legged and wearing a blueish-grey waistcoat with red cuffs and a decoration of white four-petalled flowers. While the right hand is lying in the lap, the left hand seems raised as if holding an object. All other figures are too fragmentary to describe. The two persons in the lower register seem to have elaborate hairstyles and headdresses, the one on the right seems to wear a red waistcoat, the one on the left a plate armour (?). A large split can be seen between the two persons in the upper register. Verso: Shown here is a person wearing a red monk’s robe and sitting in a cross-legged position. Behind the persons head is a halo so that it can be assumed that it is the representation of the Buddha or a Bodhisattva.
IMG
![图片[1]-panel BM-1928-1022.139-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01084970_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-panel BM-1928-1022.139-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01084972_001.jpg)
Comments:Stein 1928, p.1053: “The collection of antiquities here described [Stein no. beginning with Har.] was obtained from Badruddin Khan, of Khotan, by Mr H I Harding, HBM’s late Vice-Consul, Kashgar, and kindly presented by him on his passage through Kashmir in September, 1923, for inclusion in the Indian Government’s Museum of Central-Asian Antiquities, New Delhi. A number of interesting fresco panels, which were also presented by Mr Harding have since been set up by Mr Andrews at the Museum, New Delhi, and will be separately catalogued with other mural paintings. No definite information is available as to the provenance of the antiques here described. But it appears probable that they were brought to Khotan as a result of digging which villagers carried on at some ruins in the desert area covered with tamarisk-cones NE of Domoko. – A. Stein.”
Materials:wood
Technique:painted
Dimensions:Height: 24.30 centimetres Width: 12.70 centimetres Depth: 1.80 centimetres
Description:
Wooden panel painted on both sides. The top corners of the rectangular panel have been cut off so that it has a triangular shape on one side. Recto: Shown here are four figures in two registers above each other, always two of them sitting together and looking at each other. Only the top figure on the right is discernible and is depicted as sitting cross-legged and wearing a blueish-grey waistcoat with red cuffs and a decoration of white four-petalled flowers. While the right hand is lying in the lap, the left hand seems raised as if holding an object. All other figures are too fragmentary to describe. The two persons in the lower register seem to have elaborate hairstyles and headdresses, the one on the right seems to wear a red waistcoat, the one on the left a plate armour (?). A large split can be seen between the two persons in the upper register. Verso: Shown here is a person wearing a red monk’s robe and sitting in a cross-legged position. Behind the persons head is a halo so that it can be assumed that it is the representation of the Buddha or a Bodhisattva.
IMG
Comments:Stein 1928, p.1053: “The collection of antiquities here described [Stein no. beginning with Har.] was obtained from Badruddin Khan, of Khotan, by Mr H I Harding, HBM’s late Vice-Consul, Kashgar, and kindly presented by him on his passage through Kashmir in September, 1923, for inclusion in the Indian Government’s Museum of Central-Asian Antiquities, New Delhi. A number of interesting fresco panels, which were also presented by Mr Harding have since been set up by Mr Andrews at the Museum, New Delhi, and will be separately catalogued with other mural paintings. No definite information is available as to the provenance of the antiques here described. But it appears probable that they were brought to Khotan as a result of digging which villagers carried on at some ruins in the desert area covered with tamarisk-cones NE of Domoko. – A. Stein.”
© Copyright
The copyright of the article belongs to the author, please keep the original link for reprinting.
THE END
