Archival Note Card | 1300 Series - #8

Gold-line figure with joined hands sits inside a flame-shaped frame of leaves.

This archival note card from the 1300 series. It is paper. Buddhist sculpture, especially images of the seated Buddha, has been carried across Asia for well over two thousand years, and its calm faces are among the most widely reproduced in art. Elongated card with a black field densely patterned in swirling gilt foliage. A tall pointed halo encloses a pale figure with a tiered headdress, hands pressed together at the chest, rendered in fine ornamental detail. It is 5 inches long and 7 high.

All that filigree and still perfectly composed.