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2006
PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER 2008 2010
A THANGKA OF SHAKYAMUNI A REFUGE FIELD THANGKA
2006 BUDDHA WITH THE THIRTY-FIVE Tibet, 19th century
A LARGE CAST GILT COPPER ALLOY CONFESSION BUDDHAS Distemper on cloth; Shakyamuni seated in the
FIGURE OF MANJUSRI Central Tibet, 18th/19th century center of a paradisiacal landscape surrounded
Seated on a separately cast lotus base, wearing Distemper on cloth, with silk mounts, framed by groups of Gelugpa and Shakya hierarchs.
floral-pattern silks and regalia, and holding a and glazed. 32 3/8 x 20 7/8in (82.5 x 53.3cm) image
sword and displaying the gesture of teaching 25 3/4 x 21 1/4in (65.4 x 54.4cm) image 41 5/8 x 26 7/8in (106 x 68.4cm) frame
blooming the sutra by his left shoulder. 46 3/4 x 32 1/4in (119 x 82cm) with silks $2,000 - 3,000
31 in (78.7 cm) high $1,000 - 1,500
$2,000 - 3,000 Compare to a Gelugpa refuge field thangka
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS sold at Bonhams, New York, 14 September
PROPERTY FROM THE LOUIS AND 2015, lot 57.
EVELYNE BLAU COLLECTION 2009
A THANGKA OF A PADMASAMBHAVA Provenance
2007 NYIMA OZER private New York Collection
A THANGKA DEPICTING THE LIFE OF Eastern Tibet, 19th century acquired from Yamanaka & Co., Kyoto,
TSONGKHAPA Distemper on cloth; the spirited adept, Japan, March 1955
Tibet, 19th century holding the khatvangha and snare, seated in
Distemper on cloth; central Tsongkhapa clad dynamic pose with Amitabha above.
in a voluminous robe and seated before an 18 x 11 3/8in (45.5 x 28.8cm) image
orange aureole, surrounded by scenes from 34 1/4 x 20 1/2in (87 x 52cm) with silks
his past life; framed. $1,000 - 1,500
26 3/4 x 18 1/4in (68 x 46.3cm) visible
dimensions of image This thangka would have originally been
$800 - 1,200 part of a set depicting the Eight Forms of
Padmasambhava. As Nyima Ozer, he is
Likely from a set of thangkas depicting the depicted as an austere master of tantric
life story of the founder of the Gelug order. practices. For a thangka and description
The painting illustrates how he cultivated of Padmasmabhava’s life story, see
the Path leading to Enlightenment and how himalayanart.org/items/90161.
his spiritual progression was attested to by
prophecies of all the Buddhas of the past. Provenance
See Bonhams, New York, 18 September private collection, Washington, D.C. since 1991
2013, lot 37.
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