TEN ILLUMINATED SUTRA PAGES
TIBET, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY
Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on indigo paper; a total of 10 folios with 15 illustrations from various sutras: each folio with text on both sides; 8 folios with illustrations on one side; 2 folios with illustrations both sides.
6 1/8 x 18 7/8 in. (15.5 x 48 cm), irregular
Footnotes
西藏 約十四世紀 彩繪寫經十頁
Published
Matthew Kapstein, ''A Collection of Kanjur Folios with Four Illustrated Pages from a Rnying ma Tantra'', in Orna Almogi (ed.), Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions: The Written Word and Its Media within the Tibetan Culture Sphere, Universität Hamburg, 2016, p. 201, figs. 8-10.