The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own collection record for "Benzaiten and Fifteen Attendants," a Japanese hanging scroll in ink and color on paper dated to the thirteenth century, accession number 1975.268.11, entering the museum in 1975 as part of the Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art. The record gives the medium, the mounted dimensions of 53 1/2 by 21 1/2 inches, and identifies the subject as Benzaiten attended by her fifteen youthful attendant deities.
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PublisherThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
URLhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45623
Source TypeMuseum
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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