A RARE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED YELLOW-GROUND SILK ALTAR FRONTAL

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A RARE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED YELLOW-GROUND SILK ALTAR FRONTAL
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Finely worked in couched gilt threads and satin stitched in tones of red, blue, green, brown, white and black on a golden yellow ground with a yin yang medallion forming the centre of double vajra to the centre reserved against an elaborate lotus meander, the open blooms supporting 'The Seven Regal Symbols' Chakravatin, below an apron with the 'Flaming Jewel 'to the central panel, flanked by two sets of 'The Eight Buddhist Emblems' Bajixiang resting on upright sprigs of lotus
96 x 37 in. (244 x 95 cm.)

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Please note that the correct dimensions for this lot should read '244 x 95 cm.' and not '144 x 95 cm.' as stated in the catalogue description .

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This altar frontal would have either been used on a Lamaist altar within the Palace precincts or have been presented to a Tibetan Buddhist temple by the court as an Imperial tribute.

A closely related embroidered yellow-ground altar frontal also decorated with the 'Eight Auspicious Symbols' and the 'Seven Royal Treasures' from the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, was included in the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition China, The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, London, 2005, Catalogue p. 138, no. 43.

This embroidered altar frontal compares best to another yellow-ground example, with similar iconography but of later date, and possibly a marriage of two different pieces, illustrated by Robert Jacobsen, Imperial Silks, Chi'ing Dynasty Textiles in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Vol. II, Minnesota, 2000, no. 464.

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