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A THANGKA OF MAITREYA IN HIS PURE LAND A THANGKA OF GREEN TARA IN HER PURE LAND
TIBET, 19TH CENTURY TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
Distemper on cloth; with original silk mounts. Distemper on cloth; with original silk mounts.
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61943 Himalayan Art Resources item no.61944
Image: 26 x 19 3/8 in. (66 x 49.1 cm); Image: 26 x 19 1/4 in. (63.5 x 48.8 cm);
With silks: 47 x 27 in. (119 x 69 cm) With silks: 47 x 28 in. (119 x 71 cm)

$4,000 - 6,000 $4,000 - 6,000
西藏 十九世紀 彌勒菩薩居淨土唐卡 西藏 十九世紀 綠度母居淨土唐卡

Maitreya reigns over Tushita Heaven at the center of his celestial The thangka depicts Green Tara at the center of her palace in the
palace. He is flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Manjushri, and joined Sandalwood Forest, Tara’s Pure Land paradise. She bestows the
by Tsongkhapa and a Panchen Lama of the Gelug School of Tibetan gestures of teaching and wish-granting, flanked by yellow Marichi and
Buddhism. Numerous monks and lineage holders populate the blue-black Ekajati. Celestial musicians and dancers perform in the
open field before the palace, lucky enough to have been reborn into foreground. Her paradise has a warm and harmonious feel. Another
Maitreya’s paradisiacal realm. Compare the bodhisattvas, architectural 19th-century thankga of the same subject is held in the Rubin Museum
elements, and the oversized flowers with a thangka of Sukhavati of Art, New York (F1996.32.5; HAR542). A third was sold at Bonhams,
Heaven in the Hahn Foundation (Kimiaki, Art of Thangka, III, Seoul, London, 11 May 2017, lot 28.
2001, p.65, no.24).
Provenance
Provenance Private Charlottesville Collection
Private Charlottesville Collection Thence by descent
Thence by descent

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