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尺寸：长: 127cm 宽: 73.5cm
年代：清代乾隆(1783年)
质地：embroidery in floss silks and gold thread on silk
风格：乾隆宫廷
来源：伦敦V&A博物馆
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鉴赏：
Buddhist thangka, embroidery in floss silks and gold thread on silk, China, 1770-1800

这幅佛教丝绸唐卡中央绣有观音菩萨（Avalokiteshvara）的形象。主尊拥有八对手臂，其中双手合十作慈悲印，其余各手分别持念珠、莲花、弓箭和宝瓶。身后是放射状的手臂与慧眼，以及双重头光，背景衬以层峦叠嶂的林木与祥云。上方云端莲台之上端坐着六尊小像，亦具双重头光，代表观音菩萨的六种前身化身。前景下方两侧各有一坐于蒲团上的人物，可能为藏传佛教两大领袖——达赖喇嘛（意为“广智大海”）与班禅喇嘛（意为“大宝上师”）。左侧戴尖帽者一手托宝瓶，一手持置于莲台上的金刚杵；右侧人物则为释迦牟尼佛形象，双手结说法印。唐卡装裱以三道窄边与宽幅锦缎边框，通体以金线织就繁密花卉纹样，配以深蓝、明黄、翠绿、朱红各色丝线。内衬为黄色丝绸。顶部饰有两只镀金金属挂环。此作或制作于1783年。

Buddhist silk thangka embroidered with a central figure of the Buddhist divinity, Avalokiteshvara. The figure has eight pairs of hands, two clasped in the attitude of mercy, the others holding respectively a praying wheel, a rosary, a lotus flower, a bow and arrow and a vase. Behind are radiating hands with eyes, a double halo, a mountainous and wooded landscape and clouds. Above seated upon lotus pedestals and supported on clouds are six smaller figures, also with double halos, representing former manifestations of the same divinity. In either corner of the foreground beneath are two figures seated upon mats, probably representing the Dalai (“the vast”) Lama and the Panchen (Great Doctor) Lama, the two chief dignitaries of the Tibetan worship. The former, to the left, wears a peaked cap, and holds a vase in one hand, and a thunderbolt resting on a lotus in the other. The latter, to the right, is an effigy of Sakyamuni Buddha with the hands raised in the attitude of preaching. There are three narrow edging and a broad border of brocade all woven with close floral patterns in gold thread, dark blue, yellow, green and red silks. Yellow silk lining. At the top are two gilt metal loops for suspension. (dated 1783?)

来源：
Bequeathed by Mrs. G. B. Roberts, accessioned in 1902. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Registered File number 27847/192, 9132/192.

著录:
Wilson, Verity. Chinese Textiles, 2nd edition, London: V&A Publications, 2005, plate 79.
Waddell, L. Austine. The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism. London: W.H. Allen & Co, 1895, pp. 356, 7 illustration p. 15.