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    Sale 8962

    TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT: INDIAN AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART

    New York, Park Avenue

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    17 September 1998

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    • A thanka of Ushnishasitatapatr
    Lot 145

    A thanka of Ushnishasitatapatra

    TIBET, 18TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    USD 4,600

    Estimate

    USD 4,000 - USD 6,000

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    A thanka of Ushnishasitatapatra
    Tibet, 18th Century
    The thousand-headed, armed and legged goddess of the 'Victorious White Parasol' standing on squirming bodies above a lotus base, holding arrows and the parasol in her left and wheels of law in her right hands, her radiating arms bordered by a flaming aureole, in a landscape setting with three images of Mahakala below and flanked by the Green and White Tara above
    23 x 14 in. (58.3 x 36.8 cm.)

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