Tangka représentant le miracle de Sravasti Dynastie Qing, fin XVIIE/début XVIIIE siècle

détrempe sur tissu
au centre le Bouddha Shakyamuni en bhumisparsha mudra tenant un patra dans sa main gauche, assis en vajraparyankasana sur une fleur de lotus émergeant des flots, la tige supportée par un naga à trois têtes, le Bouddha entouré des seize deva, huit disciples, mahasiddhas, divinités et symboles de richesse et de longévité, un moine faisant des offrandes à Bouddha, un général yaksha avec les huit bodhisattvas et les seize Bouddhas, surplombés par le soleil et la lune et une apsara sortant des nuages dans un ciel noir, les Bouddhas abrités par une canopée d'où flottent des étoffes et un cartouche en-dessous portant une inscription mandchoue

Formerly in the Klooster Sparrendaal Asiatica Collection, Vught, Netherlands.

The painting was examined outside the frame. The painting is in overall good condition. There is a horizontal crease running through the centre of the painting from the upper rim down to the lower rim and a horizontal crease to the centre of the painting extending from the left hand side acros to the right hand side, both creases with minor associated loss of pigment. There are several light horizontal and vertical creases, some minor loss to the pigments to across the painting and some small areas of retouching. There are some minute areas of loss to the cloth visible on the back. There is some wear to the gold inscribed characters in the cartouches (visible in the catalogue illustration). The colours are lighter and brighter than the catalogue illustration suggests and the painting is rich in detail.
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An almost identical Chinese painting in the collection of the Musée Guimet has been identified by Giles Béguin as possibly dating to the second half of the seventeenth century and depicting the legend of the Miracle of Shravasti, see Béguin, Les Peintures du Bouddhisme Tibétain, Paris, 1995, p. 168, pl. 75 (MG 2921). A Manchu inscription fills the cartouche in the lower registers of both the Guimet painting and the present example. Another painting with this iconography bears a cartouche with a Tibetan inscription, and was sold at Christie's Paris, 11th November 2013, lot 95. Qing dynasty Buddhist icons are commonly inscribed with multi-lingual dedications.