Catalogue of Paintings Recovered from Tun-Huang by Sir Aurel Stein. Arthur Waley

Description: Arthur WaleyA Catalogue of Paintings Recovered from Tun-Huang by Sir Aurel Stein, K.C.I.ELondon, Trustees of the British Museum and of the Government of India. 1931. lii, 328 pages The Mogao Caves near Dunhuang (Tun-Huang Caves) contained a vast collection of Asian manuscripts and paintings several of which were collected by Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot and taken to India and Europe (many Chinese consider as being an outright robbery). The paintings, mainly Chinese, collected by Aurel Stein are catalogued in this book without illustration but with inclusion of many Chinese inscriptions etc and a description of the book's contents are included in Waley's Introduction as follows:"The objects described in this catalogue, with the exception of a few fragments of ‘fresco’, were recovered by Sir Aurel Stein from a walled-up chapel at the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas during his second Central Asian journey, in 1906-8. Part I of the catalogue deals with the part of the collection which is to remain in the British Museum; Part II with the portion that has been allocated to the Government of India and is preserved in the Museum of Central Asian Antiquities, Delhi. The objects described consist of drawings and paintings on silk, linen, paper, and other materials. Many are in the form of banners with side streamers, bottom-streamers, and triangular head-pieces. There are a few illuminated manuscripts on paper rolls and some in the form of small books. Chinese is the language that predominates in the texts and inscriptions; but Tibetan occurs occasionally, and Khotanese at least once."

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