敦煌研究院編號三二三窟主室藻井,該窟以「張騫出使西域」佛教史蹟畫聞名,本幅即張大千撫此藻井所得。
The caisson of Mogao Cave number 323 at Dunhuang. Zhang Daqian copied the fresco and created the present lot DUNHUANG CAISSON OF THE MID-TANG DYNASTY.

本幅原屬畫家夫人徐雯波珍藏,二○○○年委托蘇富比拍賣時方首度面世
This work was formerly in the collects ion of the artist's wife Madame Chang Hsu Wen-po. It first appeared in the market when Madame Chang entrusted the work to Replica Shoes 's in 2000

張大千四十年代初在敦煌
Zhang Daqian in Dunhuang in early 1940s