TWO PAINTINGS ON COTTON DEPICTING BUDDHIST SCENES

Description:

Thailand, 19th/20th c.
54 x 44/ 82 x 87 cm
The larger painting depicting Gautama Siddharta, the future Buddha, flying his palace on horseback supported by four celestial beings, flanked by several attendants including one holding parasol above the future Buddha and all placed in the walled palace terrace; and a painting depicting Buddha Shakyamuni seated in front of a pavilion receiving an offering extended by an ascetic, two female worshippers behind, the scene is placed in a mountainous landscape with a dancing monkey and other animals.
From an important private collection in northern Germany, collected mainly in India from the early 1950s to the 1980s - Wear, minor damages due to age