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THANGKA REPRESENTANT LE MANDALA
VAISHRAVANA
BURIATIE, CIRCA 1800
Vaishravana est placé au centre du mandala assis sur son lion
et tenant une mangouste et un bâton. Il est entouré par ses
huits serviteurs. La partie supérieure est ornée en son centre de
Vajradhara entouré de mahasiddhas surmontant les Huits Emblèmes
Bouddhiques. La section inférieure est rehaussée de divinités
protectrices.
Dimensions de la peinture: 93,5 x 64 cm. (36√ x 25 in.), encadré sous
verre

€20,000-30,000 US$23,000-33,000
£18,000-26,000
PROVENANCE:
Spink and Son, Ltd., London, 1996
Christie's New York, 25 March 2004, lot 128.
English private collection.
Christie's New York, 21 March 2012, lot 785.
Property of a Southeast Asian collector
EXPOSITION:
"Art of Buriata: Buddhist Icons from Southern Siberia," Spink & Son,
Ltd., London, December 1996.
BIBLIOGRAPHIE:
Exhibition catalogue, Art of Buriata: Buddhist Icons from Southern
Siberia, 1996, p. 12, cat. no. 6.
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A FRAMED AND GLAZED THANGKA DEPICTING A
VAISHRAVANA MANADALA
BURIATIA, CIRCA 1800
布里亚特 約1800年 財寶天王壇城唐卡 鏡框
展覽：“Art of Buriata: Buddhist Icons from Southern Siberia,”
Spink & Son, Ltd., 倫敦, 1996年12月.
著錄：展覽圖錄, Art of Buriata: Buddhist Icons from Southern
Siberia, 1996, p. 12, cat. no. 6.
來源：
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于1996年購自倫敦古董商Spink and Son, Ltd.
SCHROEDER, ULRICH VON, BUDDHIST SCULPTURES IN 紐約佳士得，2004年3月25日，拍品128號
TIBET, HONG KONG: VISUAL DHARMA PUBLICATIONS, 英國私人舊藏
2001, 2 VOLUMES, PREMIÈRE ÉDITION, NUMÉRO 753. 紐約佳士得，2012年3月21日，拍品785號
SCHROEDER, ULRICH VON. INDO-TIBETAN BRONZES, 東南亞藏家珍藏
VISUAL DHARMA PUBLICATIONS, 2008. SECOND
FACSIMILÉ EDITION, NUMÉRO 64. (3) The region of Buriata is centered around the eastern shores of Lake
Baikal in southern Siberia. Ethnically a Central Asian Mongoloid race,
€4,000-6,000 US$4,500-6,700 the Buryats were exposed to Tibetan Buddhism through contact
£3,500-5,200
with the Mongols sometime before the 17th century. Although
some elements of their native Shamanistic beliefs remained and
PROVENANCE:
Property of a Southeast Asian collector intermingled with the new faith, Buddhism remains today as the
dominant religion among the Buryat people. This painting is a
SCHROEDER, ULRICH VON, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong
mandala of the universe as it is conceived in the Indian and Himalayan
Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, 2001, 2 volumes,
tradition. At the centre of the universe is Mount Meru, upon which
First edition, number 753.
Vaishravana sits. It is surrounded by the Cosmic Ocean and the four
SCHROEDER, ULRICH VON. Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Visual Dharma
continents, each with three major islands. According to tradition,
Publications, 2008, Second facsimilé edition, number 64.
only the southern continent, Jambudvipa (here represented by the
里希·馮·施羅德著作“西藏佛教雕塑”及“印度西藏銅像” red quadrant), is terrestrial, with the other three being mythical. The
一組三冊 northern continent of Uttarakuru, of which Vaishravana is king, is here
來源：東南亞藏家珍藏
depicted more naturalistically with hills and trees, perhaps as a way of
giving importance to the central deity.
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