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19TH CENTURY
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A Tibetan black ground thang.ka on cloth depicting Yama and Yami
19th century
The centre depicting the God of Death who is standing on the bull, reclining on a female figure placed on the lotus pericarp, Yama holding scepter and lasso while Yami him a blood filled bowl offers, naked except for severed-head garland and shawl, ityphallic, his bull face with bulging eyes, open snout, pair of horns, three-leaf crown set with skulls, flaming hairdress for both and a large flaming aureol behind, Tsong.kha.pa above and surrounded by sixteen divinities partly riding an animal, all carrying different attributes and placed in front of a flaming aureol, brocate mounting
104 x 67 cm, mounted
19th century
The centre depicting the God of Death who is standing on the bull, reclining on a female figure placed on the lotus pericarp, Yama holding scepter and lasso while Yami him a blood filled bowl offers, naked except for severed-head garland and shawl, ityphallic, his bull face with bulging eyes, open snout, pair of horns, three-leaf crown set with skulls, flaming hairdress for both and a large flaming aureol behind, Tsong.kha.pa above and surrounded by sixteen divinities partly riding an animal, all carrying different attributes and placed in front of a flaming aureol, brocate mounting
104 x 67 cm, mounted
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