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Lot 59
A RARE SILK SCROLL DEPICTING FOUR OFFERING DIVINITIES
Estimated Value:
5.000 € - 8.000 €
Result:
6.475 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet, ca. 17th c.231 x 52 cm (245 x 64 cm R.)
The patchwork textile scroll is decorated with four female divinities, each standing in samabhanga on a lotus base, all four holding different offerings including a conch, garland, life-elixer vase and candle-stick, wearing sari, scarf floating around the shoulders, bejewelled, theirs faces displaying each a serene expression with downcast eyes, head and body halo’s behind, each divinity with their name below and along the lower border a lengthy embroidered inscription in Lantsha script with probably mantra's. Mounted on a wooden frame.
Formerly from an old Berlin private collection, acquired in the 1990s - Traces of age, minor wear and minor rest.
