Page 27 - 2020 Sept 22 Himalayin and Indian Works of Art Sotheby's NYC Asia Week

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 317

A THANGKA DEPI CTING MANJUSHRI, TIBET, 13TH/14TH CENTURY
Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000 USD

PROPERTY OF A SWISS COLLECTION
A THANGKA DEPICTING MANJUSHRI
TIBET, 13TH/14TH CENTURY

11 by 8 ⅜ in. (28 by 22 cm)

the four-armed form of Manjushri in orange and seated in vajraparyankasana on a throne decorated with foliate patterns and
flanked by lotus pillars, the right hand wielding the sword of prajna, his secondary arms holding a bow in one hand and an arrow in
the other, sutras resting on a lotus flower above the left shoulder, Buddha Shakyamuni seated above to the left, Vajrasattva seated
above to the right, below guardian figures ride on horses and three devotees pay homage in the lower right

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13713.

Provenance
Acquired in Tibet by Augusti Gansser-Biaggi, 1937, thence by descent

Literature
Olschak, Blanche Christine, Mystic Art of Ancient Tibet, Boston and London, 1987, p. 52.

Catalogue Note

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