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Prayer Sheet, China, Dunhuang, 15th day of 7th month / 4 August 947 CE, Woodblock print on paper, On loan from the Royal Ontario Museum, 927.24
This Buddhist prayer sheet is one among dozens of identical copies featuring the bodhisattva Guanshiyin of Great Compassion, commissioned in the city of Dunhuang in northwestern China during the summer Ghost Festival in the year 947 CE. Early in the…
Carpet, Azerbaijan, 19th century
Wool, pile-woven, On loan from the Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf Collection,
Toronto, LI2021.30.1
Merchandise traded along the Silk Roads included jewels, spices, salt, tea, and - above all - silk, carried by caravans of camels able to endure the desert's heat and lack of water. The lustrous wool carpet design seen here is called shadda, a very…
Prayer Book (Dala'il Al-Khayrat), India, Probably Kashmir, November 1818 CE / Muharram 1233 AH, Lacquer binding; opaque watercolour, ink, and gold on paper, AKM278
The prayer book "Waymarks of Benefits" (Dala'il al-Khayrat), originally composed in fifteenth-century Morocco, was frequently copied from Senegal to Turkestan, at the western and eastern extremes of the Islamic world. It was the most popular…
Robe, Central Asia, 13th century, woven silk, AKM816
Robe, Central Asia, 13th century, Silk, woven
AKM816
AKM816