A SILK EMBROIDERED THANGKA OF MAHOTTARA HERUKA
A SILK EMBROIDERED THANGKA OF MAHOTTARA HERUKA

TIBET, 19TH CENTURY

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A SILK EMBROIDERED THANGKA OF MAHOTTARA HERUKA
TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
The winged fierce deity with eight legs, twenty-one heads and forty two arms each holding a small figure of Buddha, standing in embrace with Buddhakrodesvari, on a lotus throne and backed by flames
20 7/8 x 18 ¼ in. (53 x 46 cm.)
來源
The Van Der Wee Collection, Belgium, acquired in Amsterdam, October 1969
出版
L. P. Van der Wee, Tibetan Appliqué Hangings in European Collections, The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, vol. 58 p.35-36, fig.4
L. and P. Van der Wee, A Tale of Thangkas: Living with a Collection, 1995, pp.64-67, fig.26
Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org), item no.100620
展覽
De Taal van de Thangka, Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp, 1995

拍品專文

Heruka Mahottara is the supreme deity of the Eight Herukas. With an extremely wrathful demeanor, the winged god appears maroon in color with twenty-one faces, forty-two arms and multiple legs. A comparable painted thangka is in the Brooklyn Museum of Art (36.751).

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