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A THANGKA OF VAIROCHANA
30 Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Distemper on cloth; enthroned before a glorious aureole of elephants,
snow lions, makara-riders, mythical geese and surmounting Garuda;
surrounded by 202 repeated Buddhas.
Image: 36 x 22 5/8 in. (91.5 x 57.5 cm);
With silks: 59 1/2 x 28 in. (151.1 x 71.2 cm)
$3,000 - 5,000

西藏東部 十九世紀 大日如來唐卡

This thangka is from a set depicting the five Symbolic Buddhas and
one thousand repeated Shakyamuni Buddhas. The heavy outlined
aureole with ‘thumbnail-indented’ monochrome clouds is emphatic of
the 19th-century Eastern Tibetan Khamri style. Compare the similar
format and color scheme with an example sold at Christie’s, New
York, 13 September 2011, lot 407. Two other examples of this format
were sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 22 September 2000, lots 33 & 34.

Referenced
HAR - himalayanart.org/items/31517

Provenance
Collection of Lobsang P. Lhalungpa (1926-2008)
Acquired either in Tibet before 1947 or India before 1971

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A BLACKGROUND THANGKA OF VAJRABHAIRAVA
Tibet, 18th/19th century
Distemper on cloth; dark blue and ablaze, with nine faces, standing in
pratyalidhasana on humans and animals.
Image: 20 7/8 x 15 1/4 in. (53.2 x 38.7 cm);
With silks: 34 1/2 x 25 in. (87.7 x 63.6 cm)
$3,000 - 5,000

西藏 十八／十九世紀 金剛大威德黑唐卡

Tsongkhapa, Manjushri and a Dalai Lama feature in the top register with
Shadbuja Mahakala and White Mahakala below them. A worldly protector,
Yama Dharmaraja, and Shri Devi Magzorma across the bottom.

Referenced
HAR - himalayanart.org/items/31510

Provenance
Collection of Lobsang P. Lhalungpa (1926-2008)
Acquired either in Tibet before 1947 or India before 1971

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GIUSEPPE TUCCI
Tibetan Painted Scrolls, 3 volumes
La Libreria dello Stato, Rome, 1949; three volumes, hardcover, red
cloth binding. Volumes I and II containing the text, with annotations
from the previous owner; volume III a fold-out portfolio bound
containing 235 plates (22 missing).
Volume I & II folio: 16 1/2 x 12 in. (41.9 x 30.5 cm);
Volume III folio: 19 3/8 x 13 in. (49.3 x 33 cm)
$1,500 - 2,500

朱塞佩·杜齊 《西藏畫卷》，共三卷

Provenance
Collection of Lobsang P. Lhalungpa (1926-2008)

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