A THANGKA DEPICTING SARVABUDDHADAKINI

Estimated Value:

4.000 € - 6.000 €

Result:

incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

Tibet or Nepal, ca. 1800
46 x 31 (90 x 56) cm
The red painted goddess is dancing on a figure reclining on the lotus base, her hands holding karttrika and kapala while a staff is resting against her left shoulder, wearing tiger-skin skirt, mala of severed heads, bejewelled, her face displaying a severe expression, flaming halo behind, the upper register with Samantabhadra and consort in the centre flanked to each side by a manifestation of the goddess, the four-armed Prajnaparamita and Kurukulla handling bow and arrow placed in the central section of the painting, the lower section with a krodha figure flanked by two more forms of Sarvabuddhadakini, all set amidst offerings and placed in a mountainous landscape, a lengthy inscription in Newari along the lower register, in brocade mounting, framed and glazed
From a private collection in southern Germany, collected by the father of the current owner between the 1970s and 1985, pictured in a photograph dated 1985
With a Newari dedicatory inscription in its black bottom border, this thangka belongs to a
corpus produced in Central Tibet for visiting Nepalese pilgrims and traders in the 18th and
19th centuries. For other examples, see HAR set no. 2364. They include related Vajravarahi
mandalas in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (B60D11; HAR 69408) and the Rubin
Museum of Art, New York (P1996.1.2; HAR 65817) - Traces of age, wear

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