MAS,0.1129

Description

Scope and content : Ch. 00260. Hanging in silk embroidery, showing life-size Śākyamuni Buddha on Gṛdhraūkūṭa. Ś. stands between a pair of disciples and Bodhisattvas; upper end of picture filled by canopy and floating Apsaras, lower by groups of kneeling donors and central panel for inscr. as in silk paintings. The ground is coarse natural-coloured linen, faced with light buff silk, which has mostly worn off in interspaces of figs. Design worked solid, in satin-stitch, throughout. Picture practically complete except for figs. of disciples who stand nearest Ś. and partly behind Bodhisattvas. These figs. fell along line of folding when hanging was put away, and have been for the most part eaten away. [Ser]