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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF LOWO KENCHEN A SILVER INLAID COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF
SONAM LHUNDRUP LOWO KENCHEN SONAM LHUNDRUP
TIBET, 16TH CENTURY TIBET, 16TH CENTURY
Inscription translated, ‘Homage! I, the Buddhist monk Sonam Pelzang Himalayan Art Resources item no.2333
with my entourage, prostrate and take refuge in Jamyang Sonam 5 7/8 in. (15 cm) high
Lhundrup. Please grace us with great love! Good Fortune!’.
Himalayan Art Resources item no.2332 US$10,000 - 15,000
6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm) high
西藏 十六世紀 銅錯銀羅俄索南倫珠像
US$20,000 - 30,000
Published
西藏 十六世紀 羅俄索南倫珠銅像 Portraits of the Masters, pp.272-3, no.77.
The larger of the three Sonam Lhundrups within the Portraits of the Published & Exhibited
Masters Collection, a similar example was sold at Sotheby’s, London, Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, p.207, no.175.
13 June 1980, lot 30.
Published
Portraits of the Masters, pp.270-1, no.76.
Published & Exhibited
Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, p.205, no.171.
Provenance
Sotheby’s, New York, 30 November 1994, lot 203
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