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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 313

A THANGKA DEPI CTING THE 7TH KARMAPA , CHODRAK GYATSO, TIBET, 17TH CENTURY
Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 USD

PROPERTY FROM A RHODE ISLAND COLLECTION
A THANGKA DEPICTING THE 7TH KARMAPA, CHODRAK GYATSO
TIBET, 17TH CENTURY

24 ½ by 15 ½ in. (62.2 by 39.4 cm)

the hierarch with hands in dharmachakra mudra, wearing red and saffron robes and the black hat of the Karma Kagyu lineage,
seated on cushions set on a tiered pedestal draped with a blue bordered dragon motif textile, an altar table before with offerings, a
blue and a green dragon writhing around the uprights of the jeweled throne back, all set in flower-filled landscape with a gnarled
fruiting litchi tree to the left and mountains above, Jampal Gyatso with a rosary in hand and seated amid clouds to the upper left,
Dondrup Ozer to the right, Tsultrim Pal Zangpo below with foreign pilgrims bringing gifts, and the eighth Karmapa Mikyo Dorje
(1507-1554) seated in the lower right

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13729.

Provenance
Acquired in India, circa 1960s, thence by descent

Catalogue Note
The thangka is painted in a style ultimately derived from early Ming dynasty (1368-1644) imperial works depicting Luohan, where
an arhat would be depicted wearing finely patterned silk robes and seated in landscape beneath a gnarled tree: cf. the Yongle
(1403-1424) mark and period Chudapanthaka at Sotheby’s New York, September 21, 2007, lot 33 (HAR 12540). There is a stylistic

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