A RARE FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK THANGKA OF AVALOKITESHVARA SAHASRABHUJA
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
A RARE FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK THANGKA OF AVALOKITESHVARA SAHASRABHUJA CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The thangka is finely embroidered with a central figure of Avalokiteshvara Sahasrabhuja, dressed in elaborate robes and wearing jewelry around the neck and arms, shown with eleven faces and a thousand hands which stretch around the figure in a pointed arch, with an eye stitched in black on the palm of each hand. In the lower register, Jampal Gyatso, the eighth Dalai Lama, is shown holding a white lotus and a teacher is shown seated in the bottom right. Amitabha, Akshobhya, Shakyamuni, Vairochana, Ratnasambhava and Amoghasiddi are seated on clouds in the top register. The figures are set against a landscape of rocks and trees below scrolling clouds worked in gradient shades of pink and beige, which angle to a peak above the eleventh face. The thangka is decorated in vibrant shades of red, pink, blue, beige and green, and worked in long and short satin stitches with details and outlines worked in couched silver and gold threads, all on a silk twill ground. 29¾ x 20 in. (75.6 x 50.9 cm.), framed
A RARE FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK THANGKA OF AVALOKITESHVARA SAHASRABHUJA
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
A RARE FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK THANGKA OF AVALOKITESHVARA SAHASRABHUJA CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The thangka is finely embroidered with a central figure of Avalokiteshvara Sahasrabhuja, dressed in elaborate robes and wearing jewelry around the neck and arms, shown with eleven faces and a thousand hands which stretch around the figure in a pointed arch, with an eye stitched in black on the palm of each hand. In the lower register, Jampal Gyatso, the eighth Dalai Lama, is shown holding a white lotus and a teacher is shown seated in the bottom right. Amitabha, Akshobhya, Shakyamuni, Vairochana, Ratnasambhava and Amoghasiddi are seated on clouds in the top register. The figures are set against a landscape of rocks and trees below scrolling clouds worked in gradient shades of pink and beige, which angle to a peak above the eleventh face. The thangka is decorated in vibrant shades of red, pink, blue, beige and green, and worked in long and short satin stitches with details and outlines worked in couched silver and gold threads, all on a silk twill ground. 29¾ x 20 in. (75.6 x 50.9 cm.), framed
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