Object Number | 29-198-3 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Buddhist |
Provenience | Japan |
Date Made | 18th Century |
Section | Asian |
Technique | Painted |
Iconography | Seishi | Seishi Bosatsu | Bodhisattva |
Inscription Language | Sanskrit |
Description | Temple hanging scroll. Illuminated painting of Seishi Bosatsu. Her headress contains a water vase in it. Seishi is seated in an attitude and posture of a bodhisattva (Jp: Bosatsu) hands joined in prayer and posed against a white nimbus and halos. Above appears a sacred Sanskrit character, saku, the seed syllable for Seishi Bosatsu. |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. John L. LeConte & Robert G. LeConte, 1914 |
Other Number | Getz 279 - Other Number |
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