A Chinese silk cloud collar made for the Tibetan market, 19th-early 20th century, beige in colour, embroidered with satin stitch repeated swastika patterns, symbolising the element of earth, its indestructible stability, the endless motion of the sun through the four quarters of the season on whole four lobes, 66cm x 67 cm Originating in China, the cloud collar was primarily employed as part of a larger symbol, the cosmic diagram, on which it designated the focal point. Literary sources dating from at least the Song period, would seem to confirm such an assumption: both the Song and the Jin dynastic histories, in fact, refer to the use of the cloud collar as essential component of the dragon robes, symbolising the apex of heavens capping the axis column, the clouds and the earth, which decorated the Imperial robes. It is not surprising, therefore, that the cosmic symbol of the lobed collar well adapted to the Tibetan cultural tradition, where it served a similar function as the cosmic mandalas and thus allowed a visual expression of the universal ordering principle of nature. For reference on the cloud collar motif see Schuyler, Camman (1951), The symbolism of the cloud collar, in Artibus Asiae, vol. 33, p. 1-9; Beer, Robert (2003), The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist symbols, p. 97-98. 十九/二十世纪 刺绣云肩披肩
A Chinese silk cloud collar made for the Tibetan market, 19th-early 20th century, beige in colour, embroidered with satin stitch repeated swastika patterns, symbolising the element of earth, its indestructible stability, the endless motion of the sun through the four quarters of the season on whole four lobes, 66cm x 67 cm Originating in China, the cloud collar was primarily employed as part of a larger symbol, the cosmic diagram, on which it designated the focal point. Literary sources dating from at least the Song period, would seem to confirm such an assumption: both the Song and the Jin dynastic histories, in fact, refer to the use of the cloud collar as essential component of the dragon robes, symbolising the apex of heavens capping the axis column, the clouds and the earth, which decorated the Imperial robes. It is not surprising, therefore, that the cosmic symbol of the lobed collar well adapted to the Tibetan cultural tradition, where it served a similar function as the cosmic mandalas and thus allowed a visual expression of the universal ordering principle of nature. For reference on the cloud collar motif see Schuyler, Camman (1951), The symbolism of the cloud collar, in Artibus Asiae, vol. 33, p. 1-9; Beer, Robert (2003), The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist symbols, p. 97-98. 十九/二十世纪 刺绣云肩披肩
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