A Painted Manuscript Cover
Tibet, 14th Century
With a central figure of a lama seated on a lotus cushion flanked by a vajra and a ghanta supported by intertwined lotus stems, surrounded by 84 images of Bodhisattvas arranged in registers, all finely painted in gilt on a red ground, the left edge carved with foliate scrolls centered by a kirttimukha mask, with a Tibetan inscription beneath the central figure
9 x 27 in. (22.8 x70.3 cm.)
A Painted Manuscript Cover
Tibet, 14th Century
With a central figure of a lama seated on a lotus cushion flanked by a vajra and a ghanta supported by intertwined lotus stems, surrounded by 84 images of Bodhisattvas arranged in registers, all finely painted in gilt on a red ground, the left edge carved with foliate scrolls centered by a kirttimukha mask, with a Tibetan inscription beneath the central figure
9 x 27 in. (22.8 x70.3 cm.)
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