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A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT KESI SIX- 清初 緙絲六臂大黑天唐卡
ARM MAHAKALA THANGKA
來源
QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY 斯賓克，倫敦，1992年（圖一）

The thangka is finely woven in the centre with the ferocious black 展覽
figure of the Six-Arm Mahakala of Wisdom shown trampling 斯賓克，《Tibetan Art at Spink》，倫敦，1992年，圖38號
Ganesh and holding a kapala and a kartrika in his primary hands,
as well as further attributes of skull-shaped prayer beads, a trident, 此拍品經瑞士蘇黎世聯邦理工學院離子束物理實驗室的碳十四測
a damaru drum and a vajra rope in his subsidiary hands. He is 試，證實與本圖錄之定年符合。
adorned with jewellery, a five-skull crown and a garland of skulls,
and wears an elephant hide draped over his shoulders, a billowing
blue scarf and a tiger skin around his hips. Above him is the
seated figure of the Buddha Vajradhara, flanked by two Gelugpa
monks, one representing Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelugpa
monastic school. Below the Black Mahakala is the White Six-Arm
Mahakala of Wisdom and the deities of his entourage including
a four-armed aspect of Lha Mo mounted on a white horse. This
central panel is within a narrow red border and an outer field of
dense multicolored clouds interspersed with auspicious objects and
populated with numerous black birds and various animals, as well
as with the stylised incantation ‘Om’ in gold thread within a red
circle positioned directly above the head of a special red Garuda
deity flanked by two small flying Garudas, two nagas with human
heads and torsos, two makaras in the upper section and an offering
of cones of butter-flour on a gold tray in the bottom section.

30 æ x 15 in. (78 x 38 cm.)

HK$4,000,000-6,000,000 US$500,000-780,000

PROVENANCE

Spink and Son Ltd., London, 1992 (fig. 1)

EXHIBITED

Spink and Son Ltd., Tibetan Art at Spink, London, 1992, no. 38

The results of ETH Zurich Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics
carbon 14 dating test number ETH-42989 is consistent with the
dating of this lot.

fig. 1
圖一

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