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3288 True of the most important commissions during the fertile period of
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A GELUG LAMA collaboration between Tibet and the Qing court, this sculpture is cast
QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY and gilded with remarkable thickness, which suggests a connection
Inscription translated, ‘27th on the right’. to an imperial commission. Compare his facial features to a gilt bronze
Himalayan Art Resources item no.2295 figure of the Fourth Dalai Lama, published in Huang, Xizhang Dansatisi
10 3/4 in. (26.5 cm) high Lishi Yanjiu, Beijing, 2016, p.207.
US$100,000 - 150,000 Published
Portraits of the Masters, pp.350-1, no.104.
清朝 十七世紀 銅鎏金格魯喇嘛像
Published & Exhibited
The inscription indicates that he was to be positioned 27th on the Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, p.223, no.199.
right, suggesting that this lama once belonged to a very large set
of over sixty sculptures. There are very few lineages of that size, Provenance
indicating that he is most likely from a set of Gelug Trizdens, being one Sotheby’s, New York, 24 September 1997, lot 91
of the order’s ‘Throne-Holders’.
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