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HIMALAYAN, SOUTH & SOUTHEAST
ASIAN, AND MONGOLIAN ARTS

PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF LESTER KNOX LITTLE,
LATE INSPECTOR GENERAL, CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS
9001 SERVICE, ACQUIRED IN CHINA PRIOR TO 1949
A GILT COPPER FIGURE OF AMOGHAPASA
Nepal, 17th century 9004
Standing in a slightly flexed pose, his eight radiating arms holding a A GROUP OF VAJRAYANA RELIGIOUS OBJECTS
sutra, trident, lotus, kundika, lasso, and rosary, and displaying the Tibet, 19th century
gestures of charity and teaching, his broad face surmounted by a tall Including a gau or traveling shrine of ogee shape cast to display
crown. the symbol ‘om’ in Lantsa script on a pounced ground; a gilt and
10 3/4in (27.3cm) high polychrome tsa-tsa depicting a seated Shakyamuni; and a miniature
thangka depicting a yellow-hatted lama, likely Tsongkapa.
US$4,000 - 6,000 5in (12.7cm) height of gau

9002 US$1,200 - 1,800
A GROUP OF SIX CLAY TSA-TSA OF AMITAYUS
Tibet, 19th century or earlier 9005
Identified by the kundika cradled in his lap as he sits on a lotus TWO GILT CLAY TSA-TSA
flower fronting an ogee shaped arch, five of the images fired with Tibet, 19th century or earlier
a turquoise lead glaze; the sixth molded in clay, painted with Both similarly molded, gilt and tinted to depict Amitayus attired
polychrome pigments and Tibetan inscription on the reverse (chips, in his princely raiment supporting kalasa vessels, seated in the
losses to enamel and pigments). dhyana posture and mudra in front of elaborate flaming ogee-form
4 1/2 and 4 1/8in (11.5 and 10.5cm) high mandorlas and upon double lotus plinths, the reverse molded to
display lengthy Lantsa script inscriptions (chips, soiling).
US$1,200 - 1,500 4 1/2 and 4 3/4in (11.4 and 12.1cm) high

9003 US$1,000 - 1,500
A SILVER AND COPPER ALLOY GAU
Tibet, 19th/20th century PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
The chased silver front with foliate scrolls and applied gilt plaques of
the ashtamangala and a kirtimukha that surround an ogival opening 9006
with loose glass fronting a gray clay tsatsa molded with seated A COPPER ALLOY VAJRA
divinities around a stupa placed on top of other material within the Tibet, 15th/16th century
case. Of standard shape consisting of a central shaft encircled by four
5 7/8in (14.8cm) high makara head prongs blooming from opposing lotus petal bases
separated by a globular nodule (possible re-soldering).
US$800 - 1,200 6 1/2in (16.5cm) long

US$1,500 - 2,500

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