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A very similar sculptural group of Manjushri on a lion with foreign attendant carved from chenxiangmu in the collection of
the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu fenlei quanji, Zhongguo zhu, mu, ya, jiao qi quanji (Compendium
of Chinese Art: Chinese Carving of Bamboo, Wood, Ivory, and Horn), Vol. 2, Beijing, 2009, no. 68, also carved with an
encomium by the Qianlong Emperor on the underside of the cloud-form base.
A large silk embroidery panel of this subject, depicting
Manjushri manifested as an arhat sitting at ease on a ‘luohan
bed’, with a blue lion and two foreign attendants waiting
down the steps, is illustrated in Gugong cixiu zhan tulu
(Special Exhibition on the Art of Embroidery in the National
Palace Museum), Taipei, 1992, pp. 84-87, no. 28, together
with another embroidered panel of the same scale depicting
Samantabhadra (Puxian), also manifested as an arhat, pp. 88-
91, no. 29, described as finest imperial embroidered works
from the Qianlong period.
清乾隆 御製黃楊木雕文殊騎獅像 高 10 厘米
御題「木刻文殊像贊」
「乾隆辛巳御贊」款 「古香」印
出處 紐約蘇富比帕克 - 博內 1980 年 2 月 28 日，
拍品第 42 號
英國 Melplash Court，Dorset 郡，
Timothy Lewis (1937-2004) 舊藏
英國 Duke’s Fine Art Auctions，
2010 年 9 月 23 日，拍品第 1206 號

Buddhist Silk Embroidery Panel (V) Manjusri, Yuzhiwen chuji (Initial Collection of Imperial
National Palace Museum, Taipei Literary Works), 1763, juan 30:13a, Zhejiang
清繡線佛像（五）文殊菩薩軸 國立故宮博物院藏品 University Museum Library
御製文初集，欽定四庫全書本，乾隆二十八年；
第三十卷，頁十二 浙江大學圖書館