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Flying Apsaras Holding a Bowl

Flying Apsaras Holding a Bowl

Chinese

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 2 at Tianlongshan (north panel), Shanxi province.

Sandstone; from Tianlongshan Cave 2, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province

Eastern Wei, 534-550

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