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A GILT AND SILVERED COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF JIGTEN This handsome bronze shares the same likeness of hairline,
SUMGON RINCHEN PEL physiognomy, pose, and hand gestures as numerous surviving
TIBET, LATE 13TH/14TH CENTURY paintings and sculptures of Jigten Sumgon Rinchen Pel (1143-1217),
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61536 founder of the Drigung Kagyu lineage. Compare with a well-published
4 1/8 in. (10.6 cm) high portrait in the Potala Palace (see Jackson, Painting Traditions of the
Drigung Kagyu School, New York, 2015, p.89, fig.5.12) and a larger
gilt bronze (Dinwiddie (ed.), Portraits of the Masters, London, 2003,
$6,000 - 8,000
pp.192-3, no.46).

西藏 十三/十四世紀 銅鎏金錯銀吉天頌恭仁欽貝像 A primary disciple of Pagmodrupa (1110-70), Rinchen Pel is one the
most important Tibetan figures of the 12th century. His Drigung Kagyu
order dominated the political landscape into the 13th, enjoying great
patronage and power, and creating the initial gilded tashi gomang
stupas which were later appropriated at Densatil.

Provenance
Private Collection, San Francisco, by 2001
Private Canadian Collection

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