19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL EMBROIDERED SILK BUDDHIST PANEL
19TH CENTURY
The panel is finely embroidered with Buddha holding a lotus while standing beneath a canopy in the midst of numerous bodhisattvas, acolytes and attendants. All are standing on lotus blossoms, with a cloud-enshrouded pavilion surmounted by a flaming pearl finial in the background, below various auspicious objects floating amidst further mist-enshrouded pavilions. The foreground is embroidered with lotus borne on silvery grey tendrils. All is worked in shades of russet red, blue, peach, and silver grey on a dark ivory-colored silk ground, enriched with Peking knot and sea pearls.
47¼ x 25¾ in. (120.5 x 66 cm.), framed and glazed

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Lot Essay

The present scene depicts a Buddhist heavenly assembly, which represents the possibility of salvation and rebirth in paradise. The lotus flower, held in this scene by Buddha, symbolizes purity and rebirth. Scenes of figures being reborn from lotus flowers in the ponds of the western paradise of Amitabha Buddha have been depicted in Chinese art beginning in the sixth century. A very similar panel was sold at Christie's New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1346.

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