ID: 700009007 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009007	Record Type: Movable Work
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Five-Figure Buddha Group Stencil (pounce (image-making stencil); unknown Northern Song dynasty; ca. 926/975; British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United King...; 1919,0101,0.72 (ch.00159))

Note: From Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Unusually large and complex pricked stencil (or pounce). Recto depicts a Buddha seated in the middle surrounded by two monks and two bodhisattvas. Only the Buddha and the monk and bodhisattva on his right side were drawn in ink. The paper was then folded over and holes pricked through both layers. Their connection to cave production remains tentative, but pricked stencils yield significant evidence of their own production processes.

Titles:

Five-Figure Buddha Group Stencil (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

Stencil / 模版 (C,U,RP,English,U,U,Chinese,U,U)

佛菩薩弟子五尊像畫模 (C,U,Chinese,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

pounce (image-making stencil) [300404804] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, stencils (image-making tools))

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 926/975

Creator Display:

unknown Northern Song dynasty [preferred]

artists unknown Northern Song (Northern Song cultural designation) [500372685]

Locations:

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

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

Repository Numbers: 1919,0101,0.72 (ch.00159)

Display Materials: Ink and pricked outlines on paper; drawn

	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>)

	pricking [300101943]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <transferring and transferring techniques>, transferring techniques)

	drawing (image-making) [300054196]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <drawing and drawing techniques>)

Dimensions: stencil: 79.5 × 142 cm (31 5⁄16 × 55 15⁄16 in.); Stencil on paper backing: 86.7 x 149 cm

Cultures:

Chinese (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Northern Song [300018432] (preferred,dynasty)
	.....(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, Song (Chinese culture| style| and period))

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

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

	Seated Buddha [901001328]
	.....((Buddhist allegory, symbolism, theme, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	bodhisattva [300264360]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion) (AAT)

	monk (people) [300025765]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, religious (people)) (AAT)

Provenance: Collected by: Sir Marc Aurel Stein; Acquisition date 1919 Exhibited: 2003 18 Oct-14 Dec, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2004 17 Jan-28 Mar, Kobe City Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2004 10 Apr-13 Jun, Fukuoka Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2004 26 Jun-29 Aug, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2016 7 May-4 Sep, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

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

Sources and Contributors:
Five-Figure Buddha Group Stencil	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 29
Stencil / 模版	........ [VP]
	........ British Museum [online] (1999-)
佛菩薩弟子五尊像畫模	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)

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

....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 29

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 29
	..... British Museum [online] (1999-)