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Thanh dệt kam giữ cho các tiên, bó hoa hình ảnh màn hình 4 28 1/4 x 23

Rõ ràng dệt may cho các cổ tích, hoa hình ảnh màn hình 28 1/4 x 23 1/4 trong. (71.6 x 59 cm), individual perspex framesImages of these dancing deities, or offering goddesses, normally appear on the bottom of Buddhist panels such as t hose embroidered on a large thangka dated to the Yongle period, included in the exhibition, Heavens' Embroidered Cloths,  One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, Hong Kong, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 131, no. 25, and sold at Chri stie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2002, lot 542. Although beaded jewellery chains appear as part of bodily adornments on Buddhi st sculptures its general application as a decorative motif did not find favour until the mid-Ming period onwards. On te xtiles, examples of this type of beading is found as tassels on canopies on a woven silk tapestry depicting the Buddhist  'Western Paradise', dated to the Qianlong period, in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, illustrated by Zhu Jiajin,  Treasures of the Forbidden City, 1986, p. 245, no. 97;  and on a kesi panel of Amitayus, also dated to the Qianlong period, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 1999, lot 52 5.