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Scenes from Life of the Buddha
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Accordion-fold album (Burmese: parabaik) watercolors ink and gold on mulberry bark paper with tooled leather boards, Myanmar (Burma) Mandalay
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Friends of Asian Art Gifts 2022
Title: Scenes from Life of the Buddha
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Accordion-fold album (Burmese: parabaik) watercolors ink and gold on mulberry bark paper with tooled leather boards, Myanmar (Burma) Mandalay.
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