Title: “SI LING-CHI”
(A famous empress of China
and pronounced, “See Lee-ang-chee”)
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Size: 29.625” W x 36.5” H
(unframed) Sold
Story:
Around 2700 B.C., the Empress of China, Si Ling-chi sat in her garden drinking tea under the mulberry tree. Upon hearing a slight rustle from above a cocoon fell from the tree into her cup. In the hot water, the cocoon began to unravel quickly filling the cup with shimmering strands. In amazement, she began to envision that she would have an exquisite gown woven for her husband, Hoang-ti, “the Yellow Emperor.” Over the years, she led the perfecting of how to create silk and cultivate the silkworm. A secret China treasured for thousands of years, and in so doing became the “Goddess of Silk” to which the word “silk” is how her name was phonetically pronounced in ancient Chinese.
Materials:
Acrylic, metallic and fluorescent paints on heavy 2-ply watercolor paper, veiled over with hand-made Japanese rice lace, bathed in a mixture of archival beeswax and UV-resistant polymers, bordered with gold leaf insets and outside border panels of late 1800’s silk Indian sari cloth overprinted using a hand-carved 16th century Pali wooden prayer book cover, adorned at top right with a late 1800’s Chinese silk tassel suspended from a vintage Tibetan silver, turquoise and coral gau.
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