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Sutra cover with Lantsha script
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Sutra cover with Lantsha script

Date1736-1795
Label TextThese yellow tapestry book covers are in Lantsha, a Tibetan script often used to transliterate Sanskrit.
Object number33.560.1
Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, The Asia Society, The Word and The Image: Illuminated Buddhist Manuscripts, Apr. 9 - June 7, 1987. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view Feb. 8, 2020 - Nov. 28, 2021].
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions4 5/16 x 13 5/8 in. (10.99 x 34.61 cm)
MediumSilk tapestry
Sutra cover with Lantsha script
Chinese
1736-1795
Object number: 33.560.2
Sutra cover with dbU Chen script
Chinese
1736-1795
Object number: 33.559.2
Sutra Cover
Chinese
1735-1796
Object number: 33.556.1
Sutra Cover
Chinese
1736-95
Object number: 33.556.2
Sutra Cover
Chinese
1736-1795
Object number: 33.557.1
Sutra cover
Chinese
1736-1795
Object number: 33.557.2
Sutra Cover
Chinese
1736-1795
Object number: 33.558.1
Sutra cover
Chinese
1736-1795
Object number: 33.558.2
Photo: Paul Macapia
Chinese
1735 - 96
Object number: 33.159.1
Rug
Persian
18th - 19th century
Object number: 45.18
Fragment:  Virgil from "Triumph of Fame Over Death"
French
ca. 1510
Object number: 56.271