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Compare a closely related portrait of Sakya Closely related examples sold at Sotheby’s
Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen illustrated in Rossi New York, 19 March 2008, lots 304-305 and
and Rossi, Homage to the Holy – Portraits especially 306. The fourth abbot of Ngor
of Tibet’s Spiritual Teachers, 2003, fig.22. monastery, Gyaltshap Kunga Wangchuk.
Both figures have raised hands and hold the Another related figure, formerly in the Onno
Padma stems that support the sword and Jansen Collection, sold at Christie’s New
sutra – common attributes among Sakya York, 22 March 2011, lot 336. The treatment
order patriarchs. Also compare with another of the lotus flowers compares with that of
Sakya patriarch sold in our New York rooms, another portrait sold at Sotheby’s New York,
September 14, 2015, lot 23. 24th September, 1997, lot 89 and another
illustrated in Spink and Son Ltd., Light of
Compassion, Buddhist Art from Nepal and
Tibet, London, 1997, fig.12, pp.24-25.
