wall-painting BM-1925-0619-0.26

Period:Unknown Production date:5thC-6thC
Materials:plaster
Technique:painted
Subjects:bodhisattva (?)
Dimensions:Height: 29.50 centimetres Width: 25.50 centimetres

Description:
Fragment of a wall-painting. Hand holding bowl. Painted on plaster.
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Comments:Zwalf 1985Though a small fragment, this piece demonstrates the high quality of Khotanese wall-painting. It has been shown by Gropp to be the proper left hand of a seated Bodhisattva. Another fragment in the British Museum (OA 1925. 6-19. 30), shows part of the Bodhisattva’s upper forearm on his decorated mandorla. According to Gropp, the Bodhisattva may have formed part of a large composition with life-size Bodhisattvas and Lokapālas on the side walls of a rectangular ‘cella’ in the temple at Balawaste.