A FINE AND RARE LARGE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED SILK THANKA YONGLE SIX-CHARACTER PRESENTATION MARK, DA MING YONGLE NIAN SHI, AND OF THE PERIOD Finely and densely embroidered in gold thread and brilliant colored silk threads on leaf green satin enlivened with a regular pattern of dark green embroidered medallions of curled leafy scrolls outlined with gold thread, the central image of the wrathful Raktayamari, depicted in tones of red, in yab-yum embrace with his consort Vajravetali, in pink tones, her left leg encircling his waist, his right hand raising aloft the staff or khatvanga embellished with human heads in varying states and the vajra thunderbolt, his left arm encircling his facing consort and holding a kapala or skull cup in his hand, blue serpents coiled around his wrists and ankles and a garland of severed heads pendent from his waist, his face depicted with ferocious aspect and her face upturned, her left hand holding up another kapala , both figures bedecked in jewels, each of their crowns adorned with five skulls below a seated Buddha all on a dense pattern of gold thread, dark blue scarves fluttering in front of the aureole of flames rising behind the locked couple trampling on the blue corpse of Yama, the lord of death wearing a tiger skin and crown and lying on the back of their mount, a brown buffalo recumbent on a multi-colored lotus base; all below two rows of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas seated on lotus bases, the upper including Yamantaka on the left and Manjusri, of whom Raktayamari is an emanation, on the right, flanking the five Dhyani Buddhas, Ratnasambhava, Akshobhya, Vairocana, Amitabha and Amoghasiddhi, the lower row with Green Tara on the left and Avalokitesvara on the right, a row of seven small offering goddesses dancing on lotus bases and holding aloft dishes below the couple, the thanka bordered by a yellow-ground band of vajra , the Yongle presentation mark in a vertical band in gold thread on a red embroidered ground on the upper right beside the border and below Avalokitesvara--132 x 84in. (335.3 x 213.4cm.)
A FINE AND RARE LARGE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED SILK THANKA YONGLE SIX-CHARACTER PRESENTATION MARK, DA MING YONGLE NIAN SHI, AND OF THE PERIOD Finely and densely embroidered in gold thread and brilliant colored silk threads on leaf green satin enlivened with a regular pattern of dark green embroidered medallions of curled leafy scrolls outlined with gold thread, the central image of the wrathful Raktayamari, depicted in tones of red, in yab-yum embrace with his consort Vajravetali, in pink tones, her left leg encircling his waist, his right hand raising aloft the staff or khatvanga embellished with human heads in varying states and the vajra thunderbolt, his left arm encircling his facing consort and holding a kapala or skull cup in his hand, blue serpents coiled around his wrists and ankles and a garland of severed heads pendent from his waist, his face depicted with ferocious aspect and her face upturned, her left hand holding up another kapala , both figures bedecked in jewels, each of their crowns adorned with five skulls below a seated Buddha all on a dense pattern of gold thread, dark blue scarves fluttering in front of the aureole of flames rising behind the locked couple trampling on the blue corpse of Yama, the lord of death wearing a tiger skin and crown and lying on the back of their mount, a brown buffalo recumbent on a multi-colored lotus base; all below two rows of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas seated on lotus bases, the upper including Yamantaka on the left and Manjusri, of whom Raktayamari is an emanation, on the right, flanking the five Dhyani Buddhas, Ratnasambhava, Akshobhya, Vairocana, Amitabha and Amoghasiddhi, the lower row with Green Tara on the left and Avalokitesvara on the right, a row of seven small offering goddesses dancing on lotus bases and holding aloft dishes below the couple, the thanka bordered by a yellow-ground band of vajra , the Yongle presentation mark in a vertical band in gold thread on a red embroidered ground on the upper right beside the border and below Avalokitesvara--132 x 84in. (335.3 x 213.4cm.)
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