Embroidered Maitreya Buddha Axis

[Full Embroidery Maitreya Buddha Axis]

Full Embroidery Maitreya Buddha Axis, 60 centimeters vertically and 34 centimeters horizontally. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The picture depicts the scene of Maitreya Buddha, one of the Mahayana Bodhisattvas in Buddhism, assisting all sentient beings on earth and inheriting Buddhism in the heavenly realm. The picture is full of embroidery without revealing the ground. The pattern is often outlined with stitches or gold threads, and is embroidered using needle techniques such as set needles, parallel needles, nail needles, plain gold, knitting needles, and “0525” velvet needles. There are over 80 Buddhist figures embroidered, including Maitreya Buddha, the Great Achiever, the Indian Master Adixia Venerable of the Later Hongyan Period, and the Jile Heavenly Man. The Buddha statue is richly colored, using more than ten color lines, such as gold, bright yellow, camel yellow, vermilion, orange, sapphire blue, deep blue, moon white, grass green, fruit green, and light gray. In addition, almost every object is decorated with gold lines, giving the picture a golden and magnificent decorative effect. On the back, there are four types of characters written in ink on the white silk scroll: Han, Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan. The Chinese text reads: “On August 20, the Emperor ordered Awang Banjul Tuktu to recognize the embroidered image of Maitreya Buddha, known as Jamuba, Guo Shengfu Qixi in the Qing Dynasty, and Maidali in Mongolia.”
The composition of this Buddha scroll is rich, warm, and orderly, with extremely fine embroidery techniques. It can be regarded as a masterpiece of embroidery techniques during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.