A THANGKA DEPICTING SITATARA

Description:

Tibet, 18th/ 19th cent.
59,5 x 42 cm (83,3 x 61,2) cm R.
The centre with Sitatara seated in vajrasana on a lotus pericarp with her right hand in the varadamudra while the left is raised in the vitarkamudra holding the stem of a lotus flowering along her upper arm, wearing sari, scarf, bejewelled, the palm of her hands and feet with each an eye, her face displaying a serene expression, her forehead adorned with another eye, the upper register with Tsong.kha.pa in the centre flanked by the white six-armed Ushnishavijaya and the red Amitayus, the lower border with two manifestations of Sitatara and all placed in a mountainous landscape, in brocade mounting, framed.
Old European private collection - Traces of age, wear