1984.502.1: Illustrated Buddhist Text (in Khmer script): Scene from the Vessantara Jataka
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1984.502.1
- Title
- Illustrated Buddhist Text (in Khmer script): Scene from the Vessantara Jataka
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Southeast Asia, Thailand
- Culture
- Thai
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/197399
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Individual leaf from a palm-leaf manuscript; ink, color, and gold on palm leaf
- Dimensions
- greatest dimen.: H. 6.2 x W. 60 cm (2 7/16 x 23 5/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
- Accession Year
- 1984
- Object Number
- 1984.502.1
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Pratapaditya Pal and Julia Meech, Buddhist Book Illuminations, Ravi Kumar (New York, 1988), p. 193, Pl. 56 (top)
- Robert D. Mowry, "Hidden Treasures: Southeast Asian Manuscripts in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum", Review / Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Winter 1993-1994), Vol. III, no. I, pp. 2-3
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