Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

Date

7th–8th century

Type

Portable shrine panel

Medium

Ivory with traces of color

Department

Asian Art

Culture

India (Jammu and Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir),

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

1979.287

Credit

Purchase, Rogers and Seymour Funds; Margery and Harry Kahn and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Findlay Gifts; Gifts of Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, Florance Waterbury and Jacob Weisman, by exchange; Gift of Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim, in memory of her husband, and Gift of Albert Angell Southwick, in memory of Mrs. Charles Waterbury Clark, by exchange; Bequest of Florance Waterbury, in memory of her father, John I. Waterbury and Bequest of Gilbert H. Montague, in memory of his wife, Amy Angell Collier Montague, by exchange, 1979.