CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE

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TROIS PETITES PLAQUES VOTIVES EN TERRE CUITE LAQUEE, TSHA TSHA
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE
Les trois plaques peintes en laque rouge et or, deux petites plaques représentant Amitayus assis en padmasana sur un socle lotiforme, tenant le vase, paré de bijoux, le visage serein et entouré d'un hâlo de flammes ; l'autre petite plaque représentant Bouddha assis en padmasana sur un lotus, les mains en bhumishparshamudra, entouré d'un double hâlo et d'une mandorle de fleurs, le dos portant quatre inscriptions en Mandchu, Tibetain, Mongol et en Chinois datant la plaque du règne de l'Empereur Qianlong ; petits accidents
Hauteurs: de 7,7 cm. (3 in.) à 10,3 cm. (4 1/8 in.) (3)

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THREE GOLD AND RED LACQUERED TERRACOTTA VOTIVE PLAQUES, TSHA TSHA
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

Small votive plaques such as these, are known in tibetan a tsha tsha. Large number of them have been found in ancient Buddhist sites in India as well as in Central Asia. They were made to serve as pilgrims' souvenirs, portable shrines and to be inserted into large stupas to increase the containers' potency.
Usually each plaque has on its back inscriptions identifying the deities in four languages (Tibetan, Manchurian, Mongolian and Chinese). See a very interesting set from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum, illustrated in P. Pal, Art of Tibet - A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Los Angeles 1985, pp.252-253 ; For a comparative plaque with Buddha see Gerd-Wolfgang Essen and Tsering Tashi Thingo, Die Götter des Himalaya - Buddhistische Kunst Tibets, München 1989, p.259, pl.607

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