圣鹅（哈姆萨）图案纺织品 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	圣鹅（哈姆萨）图案纺织品
品名（英）	Textile with Sacred Goose (Hamsa) Design
入馆年号	2012年，2012.445
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1400 - 公元 1533
创作地区
分类	纺织品印花（Textiles-Printed）
尺寸	整体: 40 3/4 × 189 1/2 英寸 (103.5 × 481.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	这种古吉拉特邦雕版印刷和染色的带有火腿图案的粗纺棉纺织品是典型的中世纪西印度出口布料。在这种雕版印刷的重复设计中，八只鹅（hamsa）围绕着一个圆形的花蕾，未打开的花蕾填满角落，拦截其他花蕾形成四角填充物。至少从宋伽时期（公元前3至1世纪）开始，火腿图案就在印度艺术中无处不在，当时它最著名的是被描绘成金刚山上的雕带装饰，金刚山是印度东部菩提迦叶的"钻石王座"平台，标志着佛陀的启蒙之地。纯白鹅在印度文学中被广泛提及，但正如《哈姆萨·贾塔卡》中所说，它是佛陀信息纯洁性的体现（有时被称为其信使），确保了它在印度图像学中的持久存在。大约6世纪，在阿詹塔第1洞穴的壁画中，一位王子人物所穿的披肩上出现了重复图案的火腿。当代剧作家卡利达萨在他的《拉古瓦姆萨》中提到了"用鹅的图案编织的丝绸婚纱"，这一主题在15世纪皇室所穿的礼服中仍然存在，如贾因·卡尔帕苏特拉手稿绘画中所描绘的那样。
介绍（英）	This Gujarati block-printed and dyed coarse spin cotton textile with hamsa design is a typical western Indian export cloth of the medieval period. In this block-printed repeat design, eight geese (hamsa) encircle a round flower bud, and unopened buds fill the corners, intercepting others to form a four-pointed filler. The hamsa motif has been pervasive in Indian art since at least the Sunga period (3rd–1st century BC) when it most famously is depicted as a frieze decoration on the Vajrasana, the ‘Diamond-throne’ platform which marks the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment at Bodhgaya, eastern India. The pure white goose was widely evoked in Indian literature, but it is as the embodiment of the purity of the Buddha message (sometimes invoked as its messenger), as told in the Hamsa Jataka, that it secured a lasting presence in Indian iconography. The hamsa appears as a repeat pattern in a shawl worn by a princely figure in a mural in Cave 1 at Ajanta, ca. 6th century, and the contemporary playwright Kalidasa refers in his Raghuvamsa to a “silk wedding dress woven with figures of geese”, a motif which is still present in the 15th century in dress worn by royalty, as depicted in Jain Kalpasutra manuscript paintings.