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3295 Like his predecessor the Second Panchen Lama, Lobsang Yeshe
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF THE SECOND PANCHEN Pelzangpo (1663-1737) has distinctive face. This time with a long chin
LAMA, LOBSANG YESHE PELZANGPO and big ears. A gilt bronze portrait formerly in the collection of Carolyn
TIBET, 17TH CENTURY and Wesley Halpert bears the same features and is inscribed with his
Himalayan Art Resources item no.2285 name (see HAR item no.90805). His features are so distinctive that he
3 7/8 in. (9.7 cm) high can also be identified in entirely different garb, and example of which is
published in National Museum of History, Faces of Dharma: Selected
US$15,000 - 20,000 Works of Tibetan Buddhist art, Taipei, 2012, pp.78-9, no.36.

西藏 十七世紀 銅鎏金二世班禪喇嘛羅桑意希像 At the age of eight, Lobsang Yeshe received novice vows from the
Great Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682), and years later he witnessed the
vows taken by both the Sixth and Seventh Dalai Lamas.

Published
Portraits of the Masters, pp.324-5, no.91.

Published & Exhibited
Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, p.217, no.189.

Provenance
Christie’s, New York, 3 October 1990, lot 167

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