Fragment Dimensions:

    8 cm wide x 8 cm high

Description:
     
    Incomplete fragment of a xylographic print.
    Probably a fragment of a printed mandala.

    Thin tissue-like tan colored paper.
    Paper is torn, folded, worn and dirty.
    Fragment was folded in half horizontally.
    The fold line shows ware and is stained/dirty.
    Edge is present.
    The paper is a mass produced type and 
    is probably of Russian manufacture.
    The paper displays an overall faint 
    chain-like grid pattern.
    
     

FRONT
       
    Block Printed Buddhist figures in black ink.
    Reddish staining along central horizontal fold in the paper.

    Probably a fragment of a printed mandela.
    The left figure is of a Buddha and the right
    figure possibly represents Sherab Chamma, 
    a form of the enlightened goddess Satrig Ersang.   
     
BACK

    Blank
    Black staining along central horizontal fold in the paper.