1919,0101,0.8

Description

Scope and content : Ch. lvi. 0016. Large silk painting representing Avalokiteśvara (Kuan-yin), standing, without attendants. Both ends of painting, with upper half of head and whole of fig. below knees, lost; remainder fairly preserved. Fig. stands ¾ L., both arms raised from elbows; R. hand holding flask, L. the spray of weeping willow. Workmanship clean and sure, and painting, so far as preserved, very good example of finished ‘Chinese’ style of Bodhisattva. Dress, ornaments, and hair of *Ch. 002 type; face and arms delicately drawn, with rounded contours. Flesh white, shaded with pink; dhōtī or skirt orange-red, under-robe crimson, stole olive-green, metal-work red-brown outlined with black and yellow. Round neck, in addition to necklace, is small string of beads worn by the Six-armed Avalokiteśvara; see *Ch. 00102. On L. upper edge blank yellow cartouche for inscr.