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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A RARE GROUP OF FOUR SILK BROCADE BUDDHIST Images of these dancing deities, or offering goddesses, normally
appear on the bottom of Buddhist panels such as those
PANELS embroidered on a large thangka dated to the Yongle period,
included in the exhibition, Heavens’ Embroidered Cloths, One
QING DYNASTY, 17TH/18TH CENTURY Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, Hong Kong, 1995, illustrated
in the Catalogue, p. 131, no. 25, and sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
Comprising four finely woven silk brocade rectangular panels, all 29 April 2002, lot 542. Although beaded jewellery chains appear
as part of bodily adornments on Buddhist sculptures its general
detailed with additional gilt-threads: the first, depicting a Dakini application as a decorative motif did not find favour until the
mid-Ming period onwards. On textiles, examples of this type of
framed within an aureole, standing with one leg on a lotus pedestal, beading is found as tassels on canopies on a woven silk tapestry
depicting the Buddhist ‘Western Paradise’, dated to the Qianlong
the other raised in an attitude of dance, ardhaparyanka, holding period, in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, illustrated by Zhu
Jiajin, Treasures of the Forbidden City, 1986, p. 245, no. 97; and on
in the corresponding hand a bowl containing a flower, the other a kesi panel of Amitayus, also dated to the Qianlong period, sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 April 1999, lot 525.
hand in a gesture of vitarka mudra, the deity encircled by a leafy
清十七/十八世紀 織錦持供仙女 、 纏枝花卉紋飾屏四幅
vine, below a network of beaded jewellery chains suspending from
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mythical animal-masks; the second panel, depicting a Dakini in a
similar pose, holding a shell in hand; the third, is a single full-bloom
lotus growing from a leafy stem; and the fourth, an ambrosia flask
on a lotus pedestal
28º x 23º in. (71.6 x 59 cm.), individual perspex frames (4)
HK$120,000-180,000 US$16,000-23,000
