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Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

Remains of white wash on 057. Good condition. Cf.
Toy. iv. 069. H. 1¾″, gr. width 1¼″. Pl. LXXII.

Toy. iv. ii. 058. Fr. of stucco eyeball, from large head,
prob. monster's. Convex; ball painted red, iris white,
and large pupil highly glazed black with gilded spot in
centre. Fr. of low ridge of eyelid preserved along one
edge. 2″×1⅜″. Pl. LXXII.

Toy. iv. ii. 059. Fr. of stucco face-mask; showing
lower half of face and R. eye. Surface of nose gone.
Traces of white paint in eye. Conventional type with
full square cheeks, upcurved mouth, and slightly oblique
eye. Burnt hard. Width 2″. Pl. LXXII.

Toy. iv. ii. 060. Stucco relief head; male, round-
faced, with raised eyebrows modelled as ridges, down-
dropped eyes, long curved nose, small chin, small mouth
upturned, and projecting ears. Hair combed straight up
from forehead, apparently into peak, but top broken off.
Burnt hard. 1¾″×1⅜″. Pl. LXXII.

Toy. iv. ii. 061. Stucco head; front half; male, prob.
of warlike deity. Heavy and severe, with straight
strongly marked features set close together in middle
of face. Eyes large and well opened, with prominent
eyeballs; short strongly aquiline nose; conventional
curved mouth; broad full jaw. Eyebrows shown by wide
low ridges with arched and jagged edge, rising above eyes.
On bridge of nose are two horizontal wrinkles surmounted
by a small trefoil palmette, and above this rises third eye,
set perpendicularly.
Whole of face painted vermilion; eyes apparently in
black and white. Hair black, combed straight off face in
low ridge, and passing under gilded band, but behind this
broken off. Face was moulded separately and affixed to
stucco core, which remains, filling up back. H. 3½″,
gr. width 2¾″. Pl. LXXII.

Toy. iv. ii. 062. Fr. of stucco face-mask, from head
resembling Toy. iv. ii. 061, Pl. LXXII, prob. same mould;
shows three eyes, eyebrows, and nose. Painted black,
with some red on eyeballs. Cleanly modelled. 1¾″×1¾″.

Toy. iv. ii. 063. Fr. of stucco relief fig.; L. breast,
shoulder, and upper arm slightly stretched out sideways.
Robe painted crimson; no detail left. Sand-encrusted.
2¾″×3½″.

Toy. iv. ii. 064. Fr. of stucco relief; triple band, gilded,
with fr. of background at side. 1⅜″×1″.

Toy. iv. ii. 065. Fr. of stucco relief face-mask, re-
sembling Toy. iv. ii. 061, 062, but slightly smaller.
Shows most of L. side of face with nose, mouth, and third
eye above nose. Face vermilion; eyes white with black
pupil and blue rim to eyeball; edge of eyebrow dark
blue; mouth grinning and showing white teeth. H. 1⅜″,
width 1¼″. Pl. LXXII.

Toy. iv. ii. 066. Fr. of stucco relief orn., gilded.
Design too fragmentary to be fully intelligible. Part of
curling leaves visible at R. and L. with two trefoil petals,

one overlapping the other, between. Gilding still bright.
1¾″×1¾″.

Toy. iv. ii. 067. Fr. of stucco relief lotus petal, prob.
from Padmāsana. Curves slightly sideways as if at turn
of Padmāsana. Gilded over red paint. Incomplete at
top. 3″×2½″.

Toy. iv. ii. 068. Fr. of stucco relief drapery; waved
bottom of folds. Remains of red paint (and green in
hollows) over white wash. 2″×1⅜″.

Toy. iv. ii. 069. Stucco relief fr.; flat band, slightly
curved, with sunk channel along middle, painted green.
Remainder painted white. 4¾″×2¾″.

Toy. iv. ii. 070-1. Two frs. of stucco relief band,
joining; part straight leading to circular curve; with
channelled surface leaving narrow raised edge each side.
Gilded, but much of gilding lost. 3½″ and 3″×1¾″.

Toy. iv. ii. 072. Fr. of stucco relief orn. Two chan-
nelled bands, side by side, dividing and curving away from
each other at either end. Both ends broken. Gilded, and
gilding well preserved. 4″×2¾″.

Toy. iv. ii. 073. Two frs. of stucco relief archi-
tecture. Larger piece shows two-stepped base with flat
buttress or pilaster above, projected ⅜″ from attached
'wall'. Width of pilaster 2″; width of 'wall' to R. 1¾″
where there is a corner; other side broken away. Stepped
base follows recession of wall surface from pilaster. Rise
of first step ⅜″, tread ¼″; second step ⅜″, tread 1⁄16″.
Smaller fr. shows central sq., edged band, with shorter
band on lower plane at each side; relation to larger fr.
not determined. Both covered with white wash. Gr. fr.
4¾″×2″; smaller 2″×1⅜″.

Toy. iv. ii. 074. Stucco relief frs. A number of small
curled flames; some partially embedded on stucco back-
ground with outer curve disengaged; some detached but
evidently originally in similar position. Prob. from edge
of halo; cf. Anc. Khotan, ii. Pl. LV, D. ii. 55.
Curls separately moulded, with evenly ribbed surface.
Traces of red paint over white wash. Frs. consist of one
lump of stucco carrying three curls, another carrying two,
and three detached curls. Gr. lump 6″×3″; average
length of curls 2¾″. Pl. LXXII.

Toy. iv. ii. 075. Fr. of painted stucco Padmāsana;
in horizontal section, straight; in vertical section, a base
about ⅜″ high has upper roughly flattened surface from
1¾″ to 2¾″ broad, sloping slightly upwards. From this in
a gentle backward curve rises surface about 3″ high and
receding about 3¾″ at its upper broken edge.
Upper portion shows green background, on which are
three gilded lotus petals in relief, slanting towards L. and
hanging downwards. The lobes of each petal are finished
off at tips with volutes turning inwards in continuation
of inward chamfered edges. Centre portion of petals
rises in keeled projection above volutes, and pointed tip
issues from between the curves. Much of gilding lost, and