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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 306

A THANGKA DEPI CTING AMITABHA IN SUK HAVATI, TIBET, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 USD

OTHER PROPERTIES
A THANGKA DEPICTING AMITABHA IN SUKHAVATI
TIBET, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

37 ⅜ by 29 ½ in. (95 by 75 cm)

the pureland of Sukhavati with Amitabha seated at the center on a peacock throne, an assembly of monks and deities to the sides,
a lotus pond and an Amitayus temple complex below, an elaborate canopy protecting the Buddha, and auspicious emblems
raining from blue sky above

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18369.

Provenance
Collection of Richard and Magdalena Ernst
Sotheby's, New York, March 22, 2018, lot 972 (The Richard & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Himalayan Art)

Catalogue Note
The thangka belongs to a group of paintings associated with Trehor Namkha Gyan, known as Lankajie, a renowned artist working in
Kham in the eighteenth century, see Jeff Watt, Himalayan Art Resources, Kandze Valley Painting Style and Trehor Namka Gyan.
Based on oral histories Namkha Gyan worked for Gelug establishments in the Kangdze region, as well as the Ngorpa Sakya

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