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Medicine Buddha Triad with Twelve Guardians

late 16th century
Object PlaceKorea
Medium/TechniqueInk and colors on silk
DimensionsOverall: 123 × 127.5 cm (48 7/16 × 50 3/16 in.)
Framed: 218.4 × 152.4 × 8.9 cm (86 × 60 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit LineHenry Adams Collection—Gift of the heirs of Henry Adams
Accession number19.265
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Inscriptions大妃殿下伏爲 主上殿下壽君福國之願 受命良工願成彩畵釋迦 修道會圖二幁彩畵藥師 一幁地藏一幁純金熾盛 光會圖一幁偉哉至誠所 感怍我 --- 主上殿下龍圖永康鳳歷長 新麒童麟子?--绳-國 國泰民安雨順風週無疑 矣嗚呼至哉 謹跋
ProvenanceHoused in Jofukuin, Japan. 1918, Henry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington DC; 1918, by inheritance to his heirs; 1919, gift of the heirs of Henry Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 26, 1919)