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Buddhist Initiation Paintings from the Yuan Court (1271-1368) in the Sino-Himalayan Style

Fig. 34: Textile with gold djeiran design on red ground, detail Prajnaparamita tsakli
distemper on cloth (l)
Brocaded tabby, gold djeiran on red ground, detail from Jin dynasty (1115-1234) textile
The Cleveland Museum of Art (1991.4), after James Watt and Anne Wardwell, When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles (New York, 1997), p. 115 (r)

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