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Buddha enthroned on a mat of kusa grass
17th century
- Medium
- Ink and color on silk
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 168.5 x 73.1 cm (66 5/16 x 28 3/4 in)
- Culture
- Buddhists
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Depicts the Buddha, wearing a red robe, seated on an elaborate throne of multi-colored lotus blossoms with a multi-colored base amid clouds and before a wave-patterned ground and background scattered with lotus flowers. Five seals, no inscriptions, or labels.
