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Lot 148
Pehar Gyalpo and his retinue
Estimated Value:
500 € - 800 €
Schätzpreis:
330 €
Description:
Outer Mongolia, late 18th/ early 19th c.37 x 25,5 (67 x 45) cm
Tempera on cotton fabric, original silk mounting, protective curtain and sticks. In the center of the painting, surrounded by four emanations, appears sideways riding Pehar on a white snow lion. He is three-faced, with three eyes each. The middle face is white, his right red and his left blue-black. He has six arms with the attributes: (r) vajra axe, sword and arrow, (l) knife, iron hook (?) and bow. On his three-faced head he wears a broad-brimmed hat, decorated with the double vajra, and crowned with a dried human skull. His mount stands on a sun lotus. Pehar's figure is surrounded by a blaze of fire, and huge pointed mountains form the scenic surroundings. Above Pehar appears the guru Padmasambhava who subdued the local demons and after their conversion put them in the service of the Buddhist religion. Pehar was initially assigned to protect the great monastery of Samye, which Padmasambhava himself had built. Later he extended its sphere of action over the entire territory of Lamaism, and has finally remained, to this day, appointed as state oracle for Tibet. Four emanations, called kings, appear in the four corners of the painting. They are riding a horse, a mule, snow lions and an elephant. They also wear broad-brimmed hats here and hold different attributes in their hands. In the center below, the blue-colored Damcan appears on his goat, with the twisted horns.
German private collection, collected in the 1970s/80s.
Cf. Buddha in the Yurt, Buddhist Art from Mongolia; I+II, Karin Meinert (ed.); Munich, 2011: p. 632f
Traces of age, minor wear
