A red silk brocade Dharani Sutra panel. Around 1900 - image-1

Lot 848 Dα

A red silk brocade Dharani Sutra panel. Around 1900

Auction 1124 - overview Cologne
08.12.2018, 13:00 - China
Estimate: 1.500 € - 1.700 €
Result: 8.750 € (incl. premium)
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A red silk brocade Dharani Sutra panel. Around 1900

A red silk brocade Dharani Sutra panel, the central panel with a Buddhist stupa filled with a text of the Dharani Sutra in lantsa characters in horizontal lines, surrounded by round and square cartouches filled with single lantsa characters. At the bottom a cartouche with Chinese characters.
226 x 131.5 cm

Dharani Sutra panels were used as a cover for a coffin in funeral ceremonies of Imperial family members of the first four grades. Phrases from the Dharani Sutra were invoked for spiritual benefits. According to Buddhist belief such invocations would protect the deceased against evils in this life and the next.

清約1900年 《無垢淨光大陀羅尼經》紅底織錦
可比 《Leben in der verbotenen Stadt》（紫禁城生活），香港 1989年，頁262

Literature

Compare a very similar panel, illustrated in: Life in the Forbidden Ciry, Hong Kong 1989, p. 262