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A PAINTING OF A STUPA
WITH USHNISHAVIJAYA
NEPAL, 19TH CENTURY

Finely detailed, depicting a large white
stupa with the white, multi-armed goddess
of long life, Ushnishavijaya at center, the
fve Pancha Raksha Goddesses below, the
stupa fanked on either side by four wrathful
protector’s backed by faming aureoles, with
fve worldly gods in the outer left and right
registers, and two forms of Manjushri seated
above, surrounded by apsaras and the fve
symbolic Buddhas seated in the top register,
all set amidst a mountainous and cloud-flled
landscape with a cascading river, a chariot
ritual procession along the bottom.
Opaque pigments and gold on textile
32¿ x 22ƒ in. (81.7 x 56.8 cm.)

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, New York, acquired in
Florida by 1995

PUBLISHED:

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org),
item no. 23947

Compare with an earlier painting of the
same subject at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art (2012.4550)

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