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Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

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Ivory with traces of color, India (Jammu and Kashmir ancient kingdom of Kashmir)
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Rogers and Seymour Funds; Margery and Harry Kahn and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Findlay Gifts; Gifts of Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Florance Waterbury and Jacob Weisman by exchange; Gift of Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim in memory of her husband and Gift of Albert Angell Southwick in memory of Mrs. Charles Waterbury Clark by exchange; Bequest of Florance Waterbury in memory of her father John I. Waterbury and Bequest of Gilbert H. Montague in memory of his wife Amy Angell Collier Montague by exchange 1979.
Title: Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven
Description:
Ivory with traces of color, India (Jammu and Kashmir ancient kingdom of Kashmir).

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