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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.54.1
Title
Maitreya's Paradise
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
banner, painting
Date
945 CE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Gansu province, Dunhuang
Period
Five Dynasties period, 907-960
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/203530

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink and color on ramie. Reportedly retrieved from Dunhuang, Gansu province.
Dimensions
H. 175 x W. 115 cm (68 7/8 x 45 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop (1864-1943) purchased from Yamanaka & Co., New York

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.54.1
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • De Ma, 散藏美国的五件敦煌绢画, Dunhuang Research (Lanzhou, Gansu), 1999, Issue 02, pp.170-175, pp.170-175
  • Rei Sasaguchi, "A Dated Painting From Tun-Huang In The Fogg Museum", Archives of Asian Art (1972 - 1973), vol. XXVI, pp. 26-49
  • Matthew Brack, "A Technical Study of Portable Tenth-Century Paintings from Dunhuang in US Collections" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2010), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim
  • Michelle Wang and Ryan Richard Overbey, ed., Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture, Brill Academic Publishers (Boston) (Boston, 2024), pp. IX, 270, 272, fig. 8.9

Exhibition History

  • Women and the Arts of Asia, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/10/1994 - 03/05/1995
  • 32Q: 2740 Buddhist II, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/15/2016 - 05/31/2017

Verification Level

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