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9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's

Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT

Lot 310

A GILT COPPE R ALLOY FIGURE DEPICTING THE FIRST PANCHEN LAMA , LOBZANG CHOKYI
GYALTSEN, TIBET, 17TH/18TH CENTURY
Estimate: 25,000 - 35,000 USD

PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST COLLECTION
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE DEPICTING THE FIRST PANCHEN LAMA, LOBZANG CHOKYI GYALTSEN
TIBET, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

Height 4 ¾ in. (12.1 cm)

the lama seated in dhyanasana on a double plinth base, with the right hand raised in vitarka mudra and the left resting on his lap
in samadhi mudra, with a shorn pate and articulated facial features, wearing a dhonka and voluminous patchwork robes

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13714.

Provenance
Douglas Bergeron, 1977

Catalogue Note
"Homage to this image of the omniscient master Lobzang Chokyi Gyaltsen Pal Zangpo, blessed by the hand of his reverence.
Mangalam."

The present sculpture depicts a portrait of Lobzang Chokyi Gyaltsen (1570 - 1662), the First Panchen Lama, according to the
earlier system of ordering used by the Ganden Podrang and Lhasa administration. Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen tutored the Fifth Dalai

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