ID: 700008986 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008986	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Bath in Lumbinī Garden, First Steps, and Seven Treasures of the Cakravartin (painting (visual work); unknown Tang dynasty; 9th century; British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United King...; 1919,0101,0.99; Ch.00114 (Stein no.))

Note: From Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Front: Banner showing the seven treasures of the cakravartin (world sovereign): golden wheel, jewel, coffer, general, lady, elephant and horse. The general carries a banner inscribed "zuo yi jiang" (first general of the left). Below the treasures are two scenes from the Life of the Buddha: the bathing of the newborn Sakyamuni in Lumbini Garden and his first steps. Blank cartouches on alternate sides of the scenes.

Titles:

Bath in Lumbinī Garden, First Steps, and Seven Treasures of the Cakravartin (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Representation of: Buddha (Śākyamuni/Gotama/Shaka) (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

佛本生故事：藍毗尼沐浴、七步生蓮、轉輪王七寶 (C,U,Chinese,U,U)

Painting / Banner / 繪畫 / 幡 (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

banner (declaratory artifact) [300195679]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by function>, <declaratory and advertising artifacts>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 9th century

Creator Display:

unknown Tang dynasty [preferred]

artists unknown Tang (Tang cultural designation) [500204343]

Locations:

Current: British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500125180] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1919,0101,0.99; Ch.00114 (Stein no.)

Credit Line: Collected by: Sir Marc Aurel Stein; Acquisition date 1919

Other: Discovery: Qianfodong [7029798] Gansu province (province), China (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Ink and colours on silk

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	colors (hues or tints) [300080438]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name))

	silk (silkworm material) [300014072]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, fibroinous material)

Dimensions: Painted image: 66.5 x 20.2 centimetres; with mount: 81.5 x 30.7 x 0.6 centimetres

Cultures:

Chinese (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Tang (Chinese culture, style, period) [300018420] (preferred,period)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Asian, East Asian, Chinese (culture or style), Chinese dynastic styles and periods)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Buddha [901000851]
	.....((Buddhist characters, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Śakyamuni Buddha (Asian philosopher, founder of Buddhism, ca. 560-ca. 480 BCE) [500372531]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Copyright: © The Trustees of the British Museum

Provenance: Collected by: Sir Marc Aurel Stein; Acquisition date 1919 Exhibition history Exhibited: 1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.163 1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.163 1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.163 2001 1 Nov-2002 9 Feb, Sydney, Transending Space and Time 2005 25 Jul-8 Oct, Busan Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2007 8 Feb-5 Aug, BM Gallery 91, 'Gods, Guardians and Immortals: Chinese Religious Paintings' 2016 7 May-4 Sep, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road

Inscriptions: on general's banner, in Chinese: [Transliteration: zuo yi jiang; Translation: First General of the Left (ie, the best general, since left has precedence]

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Works at Mogao

Sources and Contributors:
Bath in Lumbinī Garden, First Steps, and Seven Treasures of the Cakravartin	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 11
Representation of: Buddha (Śākyamuni/Gotama/Shaka)	........ [VP]
	........ British Museum [online] (1999-)
佛本生故事：藍毗尼沐浴、七步生蓮、轉輪王七寶	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)
Painting / Banner / 繪畫 / 幡	........ [VP]
	........ British Museum [online] (1999-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 11

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... British Museum [online] (1999-)
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 11