Minneapolis Institute of Art
Recessed Leg Reading Table
China
- Date
- c. 1415
- Medium
- Incised red lacquer on wood-
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
This rare, lacquer table and accompanying sutra covers were most likely a gift sent to Tibet from the Chinese court along with imperially commissioned sets of the 108 volume Tibetan Buddhist canon ( Kanjur ) around 1415. The table is similar in construction and incised gold-filled decoration to well-documented sutra covers made in the Chinese imperial workshops in 1410 for a special edition of the Kanjur presented to the head of the Sakya Monastery, Kunce Siba. Both the sutra covers and table are sumptuously decorated with gold-filled engraved designs ( ch'iang-chin technique) of formal lotus scrolls and the eight auspicious Buddhist emblems. China, Asia
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