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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.863.8
Title
Page from an album: Finding of a Dalai Lama
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, album leaf
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/48128

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Album leaf; ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
painting proper: 34.2 x 29 cm (13 7/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
with mounting: 41.7 x 37.4 cm (16 7/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.863.8
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Max Oidtmann, Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, Columbia University Press (New York, 2018), p. 203, ill.

Exhibition History

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