MATERIAL: Silk
DIMENSIONS: 282 x 117 cm (111 x 46 in.)
NOTES: Provenance: Portobello Market, London, 1990s.

Compare with several kasaya, or the patchwork robe of a fully ordained monk or nun, one sold at Bonhams, Hong Kong, 2 December 2021, lot 1032; another at Bonhams, Sydney, 8 December 2021, lot 309; and a third robe with auspicious cloud motifs at Bonhams, London, Knightsbridge, 5 November 2012, lot 437.
ITEM ID: 5429
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Embroidered Silk Kasaya with Painted Figures of the Bardo

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Century: 19th (1801-1900)

Imagined within the golden, ethereal realm of this lavishly embroidered robe is a vast retinue of fantastical beings known as the Bardo, who represent the in-between state of existence that occurs when a recently departed soul awaits to be reborn into the world of the living.