ID: 700008998 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008998	Record Type: Movable Work

Diamond Sutra on Dyed Paper (scroll (information artifact); unknown Chinese; ca. 600/900)

Note: From Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Along with sizing and waxing, staining or dyeing was a common step in the medieval Chinese papermaking process, serving insecticidal and water-repellent, as well as decorative, purposes. According to experimental analysis, most paper at Dunhuang seems to have been dyed a yellow color derived from the Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense), known in Chinese as huangbo. This example is relatively rare among Library Cave materials in the overtly decorative use of multicolor dyes and ink, a practice that continued, in various forms, throughout the history of imperial China.

Titles:

Diamond Sutra on Dyed Paper (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

染色紙書金剛經 (C,U,Chinese,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

scroll (information artifact) [300028629] (preferred)

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

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 600/900

Creator Display:

unknown Chinese [preferred]

artists unknown Chinese (Chinese cultural designation) [500125222]

Locations:

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

British Library (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500301700] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: Or.8210/S.4324 (Ch.79.vi.13)

Display Materials: Ink on paper

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

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 26.2 × 428.7 cm (10 5⁄16 × 168 3⁄4 in.)

Cultures:

Chinese (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

text

Specific Subjects:

	Diamond Sutra [901001375]
	.....((Named sutras, Literary works: Philosophy, Religion, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

Related Works:

	former location was .... Mogao Cave 17 [700008877]
	..........rock-cut temple; N/A; begun 9th century

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

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

Sources and Contributors:
Diamond Sutra on Dyed Paper	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 20
染色紙書金剛經	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)

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

....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 20

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 20