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A SILK KESA TEXTILE WITH DRAGONS, EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY
奥地利
09月11日 下午5点 开拍
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A SILK KESA TEXTILE WITH DRAGONS, EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Japan. The intricate fabric quilted using pieces of colorful woven textiles with variously colored sinuous dragons with vibrant scales flying among scrolling clouds, against an orange ground woven with gold threads, lined to the back with silk.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Good condition with wear and traces of use. Scattered soiling, loose threads, small losses, and some stains.

Dimensions: Size 203 x 166 cm

As Mahayana Buddhism spread from India across Central Asia in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, then to China around the 4th century AD, and onto Japan in the 6th and 7th centuries, the doctrines and practices of the faith changed profoundly. As the theology developed into one of promising salvation for all, monastic rituals evolved into public ceremonies. On these occasions, worship halls of shrines and temples were profusely decorated with special textiles (see no. 60) and priests celebrating the rituals were clothed in beautiful vestments made of the refined fabrics offered to temples by wealthy devotees. These vestments preserved the form of the traditional patchwork mantles worn by Indian monks to symbolize the vow of poverty and rejection of material possessions. According to legend, while gazing over newly planted rice fields, Buddha told his disciple that monks' garments should resemble the pattern formed by the rectangular rice fields within their earthen walls.

This textile is a ‘kesa’, a rectangular garment worn by Japanese Buddhist priests. Kesa are normally made of a sewn patchwork of cloth, the arrangement of the sections of fabric into columns surrounded by a border serving as a mandala, a symbolic rendering of the universe. This is an example of a pictorial kesa. It has an elegant design of butterflies and flowers, the changing ground colour being achieved through the resist-dyeing of the warp threads. The fabric used here was not cut up into individual pieces. Instead, lengths were sewn side by side and silk cord was then sewn onto the surface to represent the traditional patchwork divisions.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 16 March 2015, lot 3279
Estimate: USD 30,000 or approx. EUR 35,400 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: An olive-green brocaded silk satin Buddhist mantle, Kesa the fabric 17th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related technique, similar design, type of kesa, identical provenance and similar size (112.1 x 200.6 cm).

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拍品估价:1,000 - 2,000 欧元 起拍价格:500 欧元  买家佣金: 35.00%

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