ID: 700009019 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009019	Record Type: Movable Work

Sketches for Maitreya Sutra Paradise (scroll (information artifact); unknown Chinese; ca. 9th/10th century; British Library (London, Greater London, England, United Kin...; Or.8210/S.259v)

Note: From Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Subject matter features vignettes common to numerous Maitreya paradise tableaux; balancing economy of line with detail, they depict the idyllic conditions of daily life during the coming of this “future buddha.” Examples include a wedding banquet held in a tent, a reference to the women who will marry at the age of five hundred; a man plowing a field without toil; various miracles, including cloth growing from trees; an elderly couple voluntarily entering their own tomb; and a harvesting scene indicative of great bounty.

Titles:

Sketches for Maitreya Sutra Paradise (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

彌勒經淨土畫稿 (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>)

drawings (visual works) [300033973]

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

sketches [300015617]

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

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 9th/10th century

Creator Display:

unknown Chinese [preferred]

unknown Chinese (Chinese cultural designation) [500125222]

Locations:

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

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

Repository Numbers: Or.8210/S.259v

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>)

	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: 25.5 × 255 cm (10 1⁄16 × 100 3⁄8 in.)

Cultures:

Chinese (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Maitreya Paradise [901001970]
	.....((Buddhist legendary places, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Maitreya Sūtras [901001400]
	.....((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:
Sketches for Maitreya Sutra Paradise	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 39
彌勒經淨土畫稿	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)

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

....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 39

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 39