A FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK FRAGMENT OF AMITAYUS
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MYRNA AND SAM MYERS
A FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK FRAGMENT OF AMITAYUS

MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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A FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK FRAGMENT OF AMITAYUS
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The fragment is finely embroidered in satin stitch with gold-couched outlines with Amitayus seated in dhyanasana on a green base with peach-colored lotus petals and holding the kalasa containing the Elixir of Life. His pale gold-colored body is adorned with yellow scarves encircling his arms and wearing a red and green dhoti, and behind him is a multi-colored aureole from which radiate foliate flames.
13 ½ x 9 in. (34.2 x 27.8 cm.)

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An almost identical fragment was sold at Christie's New York, 19 September 2007, lot 153, which was also published in J. E. Vollmer, Silks for Thrones and Altars: Chinese Costumes and Textiles from the Liao Through the Qing dynasty, Myrna Myers, Paris, 2003, p. 122, no. 62.

Also, compare the similar, but slightly larger example on red silk, dated Yuan or early Ming dynasty, in the National Gallery, Prague, depicting a standing Buddha, illustrated by L. Hajek, Chinese Art, London, 1966, p. 228.

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