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Lot 10

A thangka of three tathagatas
Tibet, 15th/16th century

18 September 2013, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$15,000 - US$25,000

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A thangka of three tathagatas

Tibet, 15th/16th century
Distemper on cloth; with Vairocana, Akshobhya and Ratnasambhava seated on platforms protected by their corresponding animals: the snow lion, horse and elephant, with diminutive bodhisattvas flanking each figure and rows of seated tathagatas occupying the upper corners, a diminutive Milarepa seated in a cave at the center.
21 x 16 7/8 in. (53.3 x 42.9 cm)

Footnotes

Compare face and crown type with a single figure thangka of Shadaksari formerly in the Jucker Collection, see Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, Boston, 2001, p. 48, no. 10.

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