Fresco Fragment
C413B
From: China | Xinjiang | Bezeklik Caves
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | C413B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese | Buddhist |
| Provenience | China | Xinjiang | Bezeklik Caves |
| Period | Tang Dynasty |
| Date Made | ca. 750 CE |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay | Gesso |
| Technique | Fresco |
| Iconography | Bodhisattva |
| Inscription Language | German Language |
| Description | Fresco fragment from Cave 9 of the Bezeklik caves. Head of bodhisattva, turned toward viewer's left. On brown clay with coating of jesso. Outlines in black. Flesh tinted with light red. Loops of hair over ears and down shoulders in flat mat black, but upper hair over temples and on top of head a mat maroon red. Halo body shows traces of leaf green with outer borders of light red and maroon. Touch of green on figure's left shoulder. Lips maroon. The inscription on the the back reads: III Reise M[ing]. Ö[i]. M[urtuq]. Höhle I im Schutt gefunden. [in pencil] No. 11. Translation: 3rd expedition, Ming-Öi, Murtuq, Cave I Found in the rubble. No. 11 |
| Height | 29 cm |
| Width | 24 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from A. W. Bahr, 1924 |
| Other Number | 11 - Other Number | C413 (original) - Other Number |
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