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           AN APPLIQUÉ SILK TEMPLE HANGING WITH AUSPICIOUS SYMBOLS
           TIBET, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
           Himalayan Art Resources item no.61583
           84 3/4 x 119 1/2 in. (213.6 x 304.2 cm)

           $40,000 - 60,000

           西藏 十八/十九世紀 祥瑞堆繡掛幔

           In abundant and joyful celebration of life, strings of wish-fulfilling gems and lotus-bearing
           floral sprays cascade from the mouths of kirtimukha at the very top. A camel and a
           leopard bearing auspicious symbols appear in the chain below. This compositional
           element alternates between large ovals of a deep navy ground containing a parasol
           joined by horses and a sky-blue wolf in one instance, and stupa surrounded by
           auspicious objects.

           In discussion of a late 19th-century example in the Zimmerman Family Collection, Pal
           explains that these “characteristically Tibetan” large appliqué hangings were wrapped
           around the upper sections of pillars and walls in large monastic halls (Pal, Tibet: Tradition
           and Change, Albuquerque, 1997, p.202, pl.101). See a related example hanging in situ
           in the Norbulingka, Lhasa, Central Tibet, published in Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Tibet, Munich,
           2006, p.547, no.128. Also HAR#7101.

           Provenance
           Collection of a Private American Family, acquired in Kathmandu, 1967-70





























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