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3274 Also, a bronze of Shakyamuni from the same workshop was sold
A SILVER AND COPPER INLAID COPPER ALLOY FIGURE at Bonhams, Hong Kong, 29 November 2016, lot 124, and draws
OF SHALUPA SANGGYE PELZANG from the Ming imperial style, attesting to the diplomatic and cultural
GYANTSE, TIBET, 15TH CENTURY exchange between Pelchor Chose and the early Ming dynasty.
Inscription translated, ‘Homage to the Dharma Lord Shalupa
Sanggye Pelzang’. Published
Himalayan Art Resources item no.2330 Portraits of the Masters, pp.266-7, no.74.
7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm) high Dawn Hall (ed.), Tibet: Tradition & Change, Albuquerque, 1997, pp.60-
1, pl.30.
US$60,000 - 80,000
Published & Exhibited
江孜 西藏 十五世紀 錯銀錯紅銅夏魯巴桑傑巴藏銅像 Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, p.204, no.169.

Sharing similar inlay, inscriptions, proportions, and dimensions, this Exhibited
portrait of Shalupa Sanggye Pelzang (c.15th century) stems from a Tibet: Tradition & Change, The Albuquerque Museum, 18 October
Sakya sculptural lineage set of which at least two others are known. 1997 - 18 January 1998.
One, of Gayadhara (994-1043), was sold at Bonhams, New York, 14
September 2016, lot 22. The other, of Sonam Gyaltsen, was traced
back to the place of their common production at the Sakya enclave
of Pelchor Chode in Gyantse (cf. Rhie & Thurman, A Shrine for Tibet,
New York, 2009, p. 20, fig. 5; HAR item no.65358). Rhie references
further Sakya lamas possibly from the same set within repositories
there.

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