Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921 (1921)
London · leaf 196
h Annual Report, 1913, no.CXXXVII,p. 45. / 7JX ill /-. /nll Ml-IIII- il1 1 Hi II) -IIU l(. )-MU|-ijr. • ynojloq r, ai Jl .5401. -;..... ,. .,„.H jHirlbbi;- ■■■ ■ -iin I I.) /i;l I sjiflv/ ni h:i!l:)I?f)iw ill -> . i _ ^ gi riairi. fcjnb-!ff ; I .riLfiJ^ rlairiv/oid Tibnu •■j7-(leifi7/oid r-i… … XLVI Wooden Statue of a Bouhisattva, considerably largerthan life size, sculptured from cleverly-jointed blocks; it has beencovered with painted gesso, which, like the underlying wood, hassuffered from time and exposure. The hair, dressed in plaited curls, is held by two rings on topof the head,…
Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
