Lot Essay
This thangka with its numerous inscriptions describing various scenes might have been used by a travelling narrator as a form of story board.
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TIBET, 18TH CENTURY
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A thanka of Vajrasattva
Tibet, 18th Century
Seated in yab-yum with his consort on a lotus base and flaming nimbus, surrounded by numerous architectural settings and scenes from a royal narrative, richly inscribed overall, the reverse with an outline of a beribboned stupa
40 x 26 in. (103.5 x 66.2 cm.)
Tibet, 18th Century
Seated in yab-yum with his consort on a lotus base and flaming nimbus, surrounded by numerous architectural settings and scenes from a royal narrative, richly inscribed overall, the reverse with an outline of a beribboned stupa
40 x 26 in. (103.5 x 66.2 cm.)