A large thanka of Green Tara
Tibet, 17th/18th Century
With the central image of Green Tara seated on a throne with bejeweled mandorla framed by lotus flowers, a small image of Kurukulla guarding her throne and centered above by Buddha Shakyamuni, surrounded by a myriad of miniature Green Taras with four groups arranged in circles in the four Cardinal Directions
60 x 38 in. (153.8 x 97.8 cm)
拍品专文
Compare an almost identical thanka of Green Tara in the Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, cf. D. Leidy and R. Thurman, Mandala, The Architecture of Enlightenment, 1997, cat. no. 10.