A significant hanging with woven images of Amitayus

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5.000 € - 8.000 €

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incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Qianlong period
138 x 86 (153,5 x 102) cm R.
Lampas, silk, satin weave, additional pattern weft: colored silk, gold thread, held by additional warp threads. Woven transverse the pattern - woven width = ca. 138 cm. Frame: satin silk (imperial yellow). Stretched on a wooden frame, which is broken in the lower part. Seven rows of each four images of Amitayus are woven into the silk of the hanging. He is shown with coral-red skin sitting on a lotus pedestal and holding an Amrita vessel decorated with jeweled flowers in front of him. Behind each figure is a radiant mandorla and clouds, with alternating staggered mountains and perforated decorative stones with pine trees and bamboo on the sides. Behind each head is a nimbus in blue, green, yellow, resp. white in varying order. The background is filled densely with staggered clouds, with the blue sky only visible in the top row.
From an old German noble collection, by repute collected before 1930
Further fragments of this silk are found in various collections. Cf. a hanging scroll of the same type with 35 Amitayus in the Palace Museum, register no. Gu00073164 - Minor damages due to age, slightly faded

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