TENTURE D'AUTEL EN PATCHWORK DE SOIE TIBET, XVIIE/XVIIIE SIÈCLETENTURE D'AUTEL EN PATCHWORK DE SOIETIBET, XVIIE/XVIIIE SIÈCLEHimalayan Art Resources item no. 205253 83 x 83 cm (32 5/8 x 32 5/8 in.) A SILK PATCHWORK ALTAR CLOTHTIBET, 17TH/18TH CENTURY西藏 十七/十八世紀 絲綢拼祭壇布A ritual cloth of this size would have been used by Tibetan monks when handling ritual objects during tantric services. Compare with a related exampled 'Chinese and Central Asian Textiles' in Selected Articles from Orientations 1983 - 1997, 1998, p. 67, fig. 22 and another in Thurman and Weldon, Sacred Symbols, 1999, p. 62, no. 26.