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A THANGKA OF STHAVIRA RAHULA 羅睺羅尊者唐卡
TIBET, 18TH CENTURY 西藏，十八世紀
Distemper on cloth. 布本設色。
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61803 畫心：73x49釐米 (28 3/4 x 19 1.4 英吋);
Image: 73 x 49 cm (28 3/4 x 19 1.4 in.); 裝裱：153x79釐米 (60 1/4 x 31 1/4 英吋)
With silks: 153 x 79 cm (60 1/4 x 31 1/4 in.)
400,000 - 600,000 港元
HK$400,000 - 600,000
此張唐卡生動描繪了羅睺羅尊者，十六羅漢中釋迦牟尼之子，坐於石
Rahula, the son of Shakyamuni, sits on an embroidered textile above 上的座墊。其身著華麗，袈裟寬大並繡有金邊，衣領獨特。其手持羅
a rock. He wears a sumptuous gold brocade robe with an accented 睺羅尊者特有之金冠。畫面上方為釋迦摩尼佛與尊勝佛母，以示羅睺
collar, and holds his identifying attribute, a jeweled tiara. In the top 羅尊者的阿羅漢果位與無邊智慧。
corners are Shakyamuni and Ushnishavijaya, apt references to his
arhat status and perfected wisdom. 樹上懸掛的捕蝶網為畫面增加了許多意趣，盤曲的松樹和茂盛的
梅花同樣平衡中和了畫面。此類構圖可追溯到明代的羅漢唐卡，
The presence of a butterfly net hanging on a tree branch adds 而此張唐卡應效仿一組明代永樂十六羅漢唐卡中的第十張所繪製，
playfulness to the composition. Similarly, the meandering pine tree 詳見Simonet & Croës，《Splendor of Yongle Painting》，布魯塞
and the plum blossoms play with the composition’s balance. Such 爾，2002年。類似的作品可參見雍和宮所藏的一幅乾隆皇帝禦製
asymmetry in Tibetan art arrived from the arhat thangkas of the 唐卡，詳見《故宮經典：故宮唐卡圖典》，北京，2011年，頁271
Ming Dynasty. This thangka would have been the tenth painting in ，226號。
a set of sixteen arhats adapted from a Yongle-period set (cf.
Simonet & Croës, Splendor of Yongle Painting, Brussels, 2002). A 來源
similar set commissioned by the Qianlong emperor from the 美國私人收藏，自上世紀八十年代
Yonghegong is published in Wang, Classics of the Forbidden City:
Tangka Painting in the Collection of the Palace Museum , Beijing,
2011, p.271, no. 226.

Provenance
Private Collection, USA, since 1980s

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