BALINESE EMBROIDERIES, MUGHAL PERSIAN & GONGBI INK PAINTINGS ON SILK
VERY RARE ANTIQUE HANDMADE TEXTILES, TEMPLE CANOPIES, IDER-IDER, LAMAK, HANDWOVEN AND EMBROIDERED, FROM BALI.
OLD PERSIAN MUGHAL INK PAINTINGS ON SILK.
AND GONGBI ART:
During the Song Dynasty, the art of Chinese Gongbi painting was at its peak.
Gongbi is a careful realist technique from China, the opposite of the interpretive and freely expressive xieyi (寫意 ‘sketching thoughts’) style and painted with a Chinese writing ink brush on Shu Xuan paper or silk that it is not permeable (for it has been covered by the glue and alum). .
The name is from the Chinese gong chin meaning ‘tidy’ (meticulous delicate precise detailed brush craftsmanship). The technique uses highly detailed brushstrokes that define details very precisely and without independent or expressive variation. It is often highly colored and usually depicts figural or narrative subjects.
