佛像网

尺寸: H. 42 cm
年代: 唐代-五代 9-10世纪
质地: 纸幡
风格: 中原 莫高窟
来源: 伦敦大英博物馆
参阅: 外部链接
鉴赏:
Painted banner showing Amitābha Buddha in the triangular headpiece and a standing Avalokiteśvara in the main body. Completely preserved, with tail streamers indicated by ink lines only, and weighting board. Ink and colour on paper.

纸本设色旗幡画，保存完整。三角形幡头绘阿弥陀佛，幡身绘立姿观音。幡尾飘带仅以墨线勾出，附有坠板。

出自:敦煌: 莫高窟: 第17窟

From Whitfield 1983:
Like that in Pl. 45, this is a paper banner preserved virtually complete, with the various parts pasted together, but the tail streamers are merely indicated by ink lines instead of being cut into three strips. The weighting board is painted but does not seem to have projected beyond the edges of the streamers.
Made of local paper and simply drawn and coloured, it is easy to see banners such as this one as cheaper substitutes serving the same purpose as those on more expensive materials. The excellent state of preservation of this banner and that shown in the previous plate once again raises the possibility of their having been painted in advance and held ready for immediate purchase by the faithful. Figure 82 shows another banner with Avalokitesvara painted in almost the same way, with only minor differences of detail.

From Whitfield 1983:
與圖45一樣，是紙製的幡，保存完好。幡的幾處已被裱糊在一起，幡腳沒有切成三條，只用墨劃出線。鎮板上有彩畫紋樣，沒有超出幡腳外。
使用當地方生産的紙，用簡單的線描和色彩描繪的廉價幡，來替代昂貴材料製作的幡供奉。此圖以及上圖的幡均能基本完好地保存下來，也許是因爲它和預先繪好，爲信奉者購買而準備的功德畫性質相同。Fig.82收錄的幡中，觀音像的姿勢、細部描繪與此圖稍有差距，其餘描繪則與此基本相同。

著录:
Stein 1921a / Serindia: detailed report of archaeological explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China (pp.1086-1087)
Whitfield 1983 / Paintings from Dunhuang (pl.46)
Whitfield & Farrer 1990 / Caves of the Thousand Buddhas. Chinese Art from the Silk Route (cat.no.51)