Sale 8962
New York, Park Avenue
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17 September 1998
Price realised
USD 4,600
Estimate
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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