Sutra Cover with Eight Buddhist Treasures

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rectangular textile with a central horizontal band of intricate design; band is light green background with symmetrical arrangement of multicolored objects including a conch shell, a wheel, a parasol, a vase, a lotus flower, a covered urn, a pair of fish, and a banner; surrounded by a narrow golden border; wider border around that with golden curvilinear motifs on beige background with green, blue, orange, and red; border has rounded leaf-like projections on long sides.