[57] See Serindia, pp. 873 sq., 939 sqq., &c. Questions closely bearing upon armour and costume such as our Lokapālas exhibit have been discussed with much critical learning by Dr. B. Laufer in his Chinese Clay Figures, Pt. 1: Prolegomena on the History of Defensive Armour (Chicago, 1914).
[58] See Ancient Khotan, i. pp. xvi, 374, 411; Serindia, pp. 246, 463 sqq.
[59] See above, pp 12, 14 sq., 29.
[59] For detailed references, cf. Serindia, p. 873; see also Ancient Khotan, i. pp. xvi, 252.
[61] For reference to works of MM. Chavannes, Foucher, Grünwedel-Burgess, see Serindia, p. 875, note 45.
[62] Cf. Serindia, pp. 904 sqq., and the embroidery specimens reproduced there in Plates cvi-cviii, cx, cxi.
[63] Cf. F. H. Andrews, Ancient Chinese Figured Silks excavated by Sir Aurel Stein (B. Quaritch, London, 1920), pp. 4 sqq., Figs. 1–3.
[64] See above, Plates [i], [ii].
[65] We meet with exactly corresponding examples of the combination of Chinese and ‘Sassanian’ textile motifs in certain printed silks from the ‘Thousand Buddhas’; see Serindia, p. 911, Plates cxiii, cxiv.