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Despite its extensive damage and modern restorations, it provides important information about how early religious temple paintings were produced. First, a thick layer of mud, reinforced by straw, was applied over a masonry backing. A thin layer of fine clay mixed with vegetable fibers was added, followed by a smooth topcoat of lime. The design was then drawn in ink outlines and filled with color. In this fragment, a standing bodhisattva holds a plate containing a jeweled mountain or piece of coral. In the full composition, this figure and the seated bodhisattva in the foreground would have likely flanked a central Buddhist icon. Another fragment, depicting a pair of flanking figures belonging to the opposite side of the composition, is now in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of  Asian Art in Washington, DC. The fragments are believed to come from Cisheng temple (built about 952) in Wen county, Henan province, eastern China.\n","remarks":"ASIA_15-TXX-1_CLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"[C. T. Loo (1880-1957), New York]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum for the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection, 1952.","remarks":null}],"datebegin":930,"sortnumber":"1952   41y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:01:48.792724","objectid":24192,"dimensions":"Painting: 179 × 80 cm (70 1/2 × 31 1/2 in.)\r\n180.5 × 81 × 4.8 cm (71 1/16 × 31 7/8 × 1 7/8 in.)","on_view":true}