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尺寸：393.7 x 233.7 cm
年代：清代
质地：Applique of various Chinese silks, silvered and gilded leather shapes on silk satin ground; embellished with couched silk cord and embroidery
风格：中原
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
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鉴赏：
尺寸很大, 非常精致

Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

Silk appliqué with damask, satin, brocade, and leather substrate with silver finish and embroidery with silk cord

This monumental appliqué shows Manjushri with his identifying attributes—a sword and book on adjacent lotuses—riding a blue lion. Manchu rulers, especially Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736–95), revered this bodhisattva; the Suzhou imperial workshop likely fabricated the piece as a gift to a Tibetan monastery. Various silks were used: silk strips to suggest the volume of the folds in his garment and couched silk cords to delineate the lion’s mane and tail. Above, the blue Buddha Akshobhya attests to Chinese familiarity with Tibetan conventions. At lower left is the pilgrim Sudhana, the ideal devotee who receives teachings from Manjushri.

来源:
[ Lockwood de Forest American, New York, until 1915; sold to MMA]

展览:
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet,” September 16, 2024–January 12, 2025.

著录:
Leidy, Denise Patry. “Two Kangxi Period Buddhist Textiles.” Arts of Asia 47, no. 2 (March–April 2017). pp. 76–81, figs. 6–9.

Fong Chow. “Arts from the Rooftop of Asia- Tibet, Nepal, Kashmir.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 29, no. 9, May 1971. p. 384.

Fong Chow, ed. Arts from the Rooftop of Asia: Tibet, Nepal and Kashmir. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971, cat. no. 91.

Barnhart, Richard M. (Introduction). The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asia. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, p. 114, pl. 73.

Dunne, Claire. Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography. New York: Parabola Books, 2000, p. 201.