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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE
CONNECTICUT COLLECTION

935
A NINGXIA RUNNER

LATE QING DYNASTY
The runner is comprised of three mats, each
decorated with a vajra in yellow on a blue ground
within a border of radiating lappets.
88Ω x 30 in. (224.7 x 76.2 cm.)

$4,000-6,000

Compare the Ningxia rug comprised of eight
mats formerly in the Robert Hatfeld Ellsworth
collection and which was sold in The Collection
of Robert Hatfeld Ellsworth Part V: European
Decorative Arts, Carpets, Old Master Paintings
and Asian Works of Art, Christie’s New York,
21 March 2015, lot 1024.
晚清 寧夏十字金剛杵紋桌旗

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

936
A SILK THANGKA WOVEN
WITH AMITAYUS

MONGOLIA, LATE 19TH-EARLY
20TH CENTURY
The thangka is woven with a pair of bodhisattvas
making oferings to a central image of Amitayus
seated on a lotus throne, with two lamas
positioned above and below, and surrounded by
sixteen smaller arhats and two patrons. The scene
set within a mountainous landscape, and is woven
in shades of purple, green, blue, yellow, orange,
and green.
Image: 72º x 37√ in. (183.5 x 96.1 cm.);
Including brocade borders: 103Ω x 56¬ in.
(263.6 x 144 cm.)

$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE

Acquired in Asia in the early twentieth century.
蒙古 十九世紀末/二十世紀初
絲織阿彌陀佛唐卡

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