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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MRS. ANGELA PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NORTHWESTERN
JUCKER-GRUNAUER COLLECTION
A THANGKA DEPICTING A PAIR OF LARGE GILT-WOOD
NILASHVAKRISHNA VAISHRAVANA MANUSCRIPT COVERS
Tibet, Circa 16th Century Tibet, 14th Century
the armour-clad blue Vaishravana riding a blue Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13628.
horse against a flaming aureole, surrounded by 13½ by 33¾ in. (34.3 by 85.7 cm.) each, [2]
four mounted assistants
PROVENANCE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 89165.
7⅞ by 6½ in. (20 by 16.5 cm) Rossi & Rossi, Ltd.
EXHIBITED
PROVENANCE
Guardians of the Sacred Word: Early Tibetan
Sotheby’s New York, March 28, 2006, lot 85.
Acquired between 1959-2005. Manuscript Covers, 12th-15th Century, Barbara
Mathes Gallery, New York, September 17 -
LITERATURE October 19, 1996.
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Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, The Jucker LITERATURE
Collection, Boston, 2001, p. 104, no. 37a.
David Weldon, exh. cat., Early Tibetan Manuscript
Covers: 12th-15th Century, London, 1996.
$ 2,000-3,000
$ 12,000-18,000
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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MRS. ANGELA
JUCKER-GRUNAUER
A THANGKA DEPICTING
NARTAKARAKTA VAISHRAVANA
Tibet, Circa 17th Century
the multi-armed armour-clad form of Vaishravana
seated on a cloud-borne dragon within a temple
setting
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 89164.
7⅞ by 6½ in. (20 by 16.5 cm)

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, March 28, 2006, lot 86.
Acquired between 1959-2005.
LITERATURE
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Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, The Jucker
Collection, Boston, 2001, p. 104, no. 37b.

$ 2,000-3,000

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