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Sutra Cover
Unrecorded artistMing dynasty (1368–1644), c. 1590's
- Attribution
- China
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, satin weave with patterning wefts; wrapped over cardboard and backed with paper; applied label of silk, plain weave; with inscribed title painted and/or printed with ink; sutra, accordion mounted
- Physical dimensions
- 35.3 × 11.8 cm (13 7/8 × 4 5/8 in.); Inner papers opened: 35.3 × 83.8 cm (13 7/8 × 33 in.)
- Credit line
- Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and The Walter E. Heller Foundation Endowment
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