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Lot 88
A THANGKA DEPICTING VAJRAPANI
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Schätzpreis:
1.500 €
Description:
Tibet, 19th c.55,5 x 40,5 cm R.
Standing in alidhasana on a lotus-base with his raised right hand brandishing the vajra while the left is showing the tarjanimudra, wearing tiger skirt, snake-male, bejewelled, his face displaying a wrathful expression with open mouth, leaking flaming halo behind, flanked by a pair of differently shaped stupas, the upper corners with the red Amitabha supporting the alms-bowl and Buddha Shakyamuni with his right hand lowered in the bhumisparshamudra, the lower register with a krodha figure in the centre flanked by Sitatara and Manjushri and all placed in a mountainous landscape. Framed under glass
Important German private collection, collected in the 1970s and 80s, mainly acquired at Schoettle Ostasiatica, Stuttgart
Published: Schoettle Ostasiatica, Tibetica 39, 1981, no. 3604
Very minor traces of age
