拍品 153
153
A FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK FRAGMENT OF THE BUDDHA AMITAYUS
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A FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK FRAGMENT OF THE BUDDHA AMITAYUS

MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

细节
A FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK FRAGMENT OF THE BUDDHA AMITAYUS
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
Finely worked in satin stitch with gold-couched outlines, the Buddha of Infinite Life shown seated in dhyanasana and holding the kalasa containing the Elixir of Life, his white body with yellow scarves encircling his arms and wearing a red and green dhoti, seated on a green base with peach-colored lotus petals, with a multi-colored mandorla from which radiate foliate flames behind him
13¾ x 8¼ in. (35 x 21 cm)
出版
J. Vollmer, Silks for Thrones and Altars, Chinese Costume and Textiles, Paris, 2003, p. 122. no. 62.

拍品专文

The stitching on this embroidery is exceptionally fine and the silk floss of a very high quality. According to J. Vollmer, op. cit., this embroidery is from a set of five unused panels and "in three other known panels, the pattern for the Buddha remains the same, but the colors vary from figure to figure, suggesting that they were to be read as the Five Transcendent Buddhas".

Compare with another similar, but slightly larger example on red silk dated Yuan or early Ming in the National Gallery, Prague, depicting a standing Buddha, illustrated by L. Hajek, Chinese Art, London, p. 228.