Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

Medium

Ivory with traces of color

Dimensions

H. 2 1/2 (6.4 cm); W. 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

Classification

Ivories

Culture

India (Jammu and Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir),

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Rogers and Seymour Funds; Margery and Harry Kahn and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Findlay Gifts; Gifts of Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, Florance Waterbury and Jacob Weisman, by exchange; Gift of Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim, in memory of her husband, and Gift of Albert Angell Southwick, in memory of Mrs. Charles Waterbury Clark, by exchange; Bequest of Florance Waterbury, in memory of her father, John I. Waterbury and Bequest of Gilbert H. Montague, in memory of his wife, Amy Angell Collier Montague, by exchange, 1979.

Accession Number

1979.287

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