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Flying Apsaras Holding a Bowl
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Flying divinity with trailing scarves holding a bowl in his right hand, flying toward left and looking back over his right shoulder. Low sandstone relief from the ceiling of cave 3 (north panel) at Tianlongshan, Shanxi province.
Department of Asian Art
Grenville L. Winthrop New York (by 1943) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1943.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Title: Flying Apsaras Holding a Bowl
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Flying divinity with trailing scarves holding a bowl in his right hand, flying toward left and looking back over his right shoulder.
Low sandstone relief from the ceiling of cave 3 (north panel) at Tianlongshan, Shanxi province.
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