Book Cover with the Seven Jewels

1150-1250

71.4 cm 24.1 cm 3.5 cm

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Every successful and righteous ruler, it was said, has a set of seven "jewels." They are: the elephant (that is, an army's elephant brigade); above it, the wheel (here signifying the spread of Buddhism); the general; the minister; the queen; the horse (that is, the cavalry); a...

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39933
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Jacques Caramagues, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, July 14, 1986, by purchase.
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en
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1
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