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AN IMPORTANT AND FINELY PAINTED THANGKA OF
LUOHAN KANAKAVATSA

MING DYNASTY, 15-16TH CENTURY
The thangka is superbly painted depicting the Luohan Kanakavatsa seated on a rock with a
halo surrounding his head, holding a running knot in his hands, accompanied by a monk
on the left holding a parcel wrapped in brocade, both gazing at a dwarf on the lower left
corner offering a transparent bejeweled vase containing a coral branch, all set in a verdant
landscape with rugged mountains rendered in the ‘blue and green’ style, with a blue goat
and peony shrubs in the foreground. The thangka is framed with its original brocade
mounting.
Thangka: 31¿ x 19√ in. (79 x 50.5 cm.); Overall: 55¬ x 27—/”ÿ in. (141.3 x 70 cm.)
HK$4,000,000-6,000,000 US$500,000-780,000
PROVENANCE
Joachim Schlotterbeck (1926-2007), a well-known painter-collector, Wurzburg, acquired
in 1955 from a German diplomat based in China before 1930, by repute

明十五 / 十六世紀 彩繪絹本迦諾迦伐蹉尊者唐卡
來源
（傳）維爾茨堡畫家 Joachim Schlotterbeck (1926-2007) 舊藏，1955 年購自一名德
國外交官。該名外交官於 1930 年以前派駐中國

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