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TIBET, 18TH CENTURY
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A thangka of Yellow Jambhala
Tibet, 18th century
The wealth deity seated in lalitasana at center holding a fruit and the jewel-spewing mongoose, clad in a red dhoti and adorned with a garland of flowers, the face with expressive gaze backed by a nimbus, with the blue-skinned Medicine Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha, a Gelugpa Lama, and Amitayus above, four-headed Brahma in the top left corner and Vishnu holding the conch and mongoose in the top right, and the four Direction Guardians below
Opaque pigments and gold on textile
40½ x 28 in. (102.9 x 71.1 cm.)
Tibet, 18th century
The wealth deity seated in lalitasana at center holding a fruit and the jewel-spewing mongoose, clad in a red dhoti and adorned with a garland of flowers, the face with expressive gaze backed by a nimbus, with the blue-skinned Medicine Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha, a Gelugpa Lama, and Amitayus above, four-headed Brahma in the top left corner and Vishnu holding the conch and mongoose in the top right, and the four Direction Guardians below
Opaque pigments and gold on textile
40½ x 28 in. (102.9 x 71.1 cm.)
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1990s