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"tombstone": "Vajrapani Embroidered Mount with Garuda, painting 1600s, embroidery c. 1300. Choying Dorje, the Tenth Black Hat Karmapa (Tibetan, 1604\u20131674). Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on silk; overall: 114.6 x 44.5 cm (45 1/8 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1989.11.a",
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"title": "Vajrapani Embroidered Mount with Garuda",
"creation_date": "painting 1600s, embroidery c. 1300",
"creation_date_earliest": 1600,
"creation_date_latest": 1699,
"artists_tags": [
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"culture": [
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"technique": "Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on silk",
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"department": "Textiles",
"collection": "Textiles",
"type": "Embroidery",
"measurements": "Overall: 114.6 x 44.5 cm (45 1/8 x 17 1/2 in.)",
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},
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"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 211548,
"title": "When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art",
"description": "When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).",
"opening_date": "1997-10-19T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 387036,
"title": "Himalayan art rotation",
"description": "Himalayan art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 2014-November 2, 2015).",
"opening_date": "2014-12-22T05:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": [
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"description": "Selections from The Tibetan Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 23-October 24, 1993):",
"opening_date": "1993-08-23T00:00:00"
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"description": "(Sara Tremayne, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "?\u20131989",
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"footnotes": null,
"date": "1989\u2013",
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"did_you_know": "Vajrapani sometimes takes the form of Garuda, enemy of snakes.",
"early_education_description": null,
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"description": "The painting depicts the Buddhist protector who holds (pani) the thunder bolt (vajra) in his right hand. He kneels in reverence and holds his left hand in a gesture of salute. This unusual image appears to have been the vision of a Tibetan monastic patriarch known for creating his own inventive paintings and sculptures.
Sewn to the painting are Chinese damask borders and rare embroideries dating to the Chinese Yuan dynasty (1279\u20131368). They depict man-eagle figures known as Garuda, a form occasionally assumed by Vajrapani.",
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]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles. 1997.",
"page_number": "pp. 190-193, color reproduction, p. 191, detail reproduction p. 191, 193",
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}
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"updated_at": "2026-05-29 07:58:55.817000"
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