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TUCCI, GIUSEPPE. TIBETAN PAINTED SCROLLS. ROME: LA
LIBRERIA DELLO STATO, 1949. 3 VOLUMES. ORIGINAL CLOTH
AND COLOR PLATES
$5,000-7,000
圖齐着《西藏画卷》 羅马LA LIBRERIA DELLO STATO出版，1949年，三
卷，原装布帛及圖版
Guiseppe Tucci was an Italian scholar and one of the founders of the feld
of Buddhist Studies. Originally published in 1949, his anthology of Tibetan
painting, Tibetan Painted Scrolls, is revered as a seminal work on Tibetan
Buddhist painting. The present work contains all of the original color plates
and is in pristine condition. Another set of this publication from the Collection
of Robert Hatfeld Ellsworth sold at Christie’s New York on 21 March 2015 for
$25,000 (lot 1636).
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