Antique Chinese Yao Ceremonial Painting From the Ten Kings of Hell. The top register illustrating a king, assisted by a scribe and another official examining and passing sentence on the souls of the dead; below demons punish the wicked. The Ten Kings of Hell developed during the second half of the Tang dynasty transforming the Indian Buddhist view of judgment after death into a typically Chinese bureaucratic process. Framed. Size: 66'' x 31'', 168 x 79 cm (sheet); 74'' x 39'', 188 x 99 cm (frame)

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