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ULRICH VON SCHROEDER A THANGKA OF PADMASAMBHAVA A MANDALA OF TARA
Three Volumes on Buddhist Art Tibet, 19th century Tibet, 19th/20th century
Comprising: Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Distemper on cloth, the central figure clad in Distemper on cloth, framed and glazed. 55cm
Volume One, India and Nepal, First Edition, rich brocaded cloth and seated on a lotus (21 5/8in) x 46cm (18 1/8in)
2001, copy number 716; Buddhist Sculptures throne set against a Chinese-style landscape,
in Tibet, Volume Two, Tibet and China, First surrounded by nine deities and emanations £800 - 1,200
Edition, 2001, copy number 716; and Indo- above him and five protector deities at the CNY7,100 - 11,000
Tibetan Bronzes, Second Facsimile Edition, bottom of the picture, mounted on silk, HK$7,700 - 12,000
2008, copy number 19, Visual Dharma framed and glazed. 76cm (29 7/8in) x 55.5cm
Publications Ltd., Hong Kong; all boxed. (21 7/8in) 611
35cm x 24.5cm (13.3/4in x 9.5/8in). (6). A THANGKA OF GREEN TARA
£800 - 1,200 Tibet, 19th/20th century
£800 - 1,200 CNY7,100 - 11,000 Set against a cloudy Chinese-style landscape,
CNY7,100 - 11,000 HK$7,700 - 12,000 surrounded by six smaller Taras, with three
HK$7,700 - 12,000 Shakyamuni and teachers from the Shakya
609 school above and below, framed and glazed.
A THANGKA OF SHAKYAMUNI AND THE 61.5cm (24 1/4in) x 41cm (16 1/8in)
607 • THIRTY-FIVE CONFESSION BUDDHAS
GIUSEPPE TUCCI Tibet, 19th century £800 - 1,200
Tibetan Painted Scrolls The central figure seated in Bhumisparsa
La Libreria dello Stato, Roma, 1949. Three mudra on a double-lotus throne against a CNY7,100 - 11,000
HK$7,700 - 12,000
volumes. (3). verdant landscape, flanked by two standing
disciples and surrounded by the thirty-five
£3,000 - 5,000 confession Buddhas, each holding various
CNY26,000 - 44,000 implements and mudras, framed.
HK$29,000 - 48,000 84cm (33in) x 62cm (24 3/8in)
Guiseppe Tucci was an Italian scholar and £1,000 - 1,500
one of the founders of the field of Buddhist CNY8,800 - 13,000
Studies. Originally published in 1949, his HK$9,700 - 15,000
anthology of Tibetan painting, Tibetan Painted
Scrolls, is revered as the seminal work on Provenance: collected in China between
Tibetan Buddhist painting. Another set of 1930-46 and thence by descent to the
this publication from the Collection of Robert present owner.
Hatfield Ellsworth sold at Christie’s New York
on 21 March 2015 for $25,000 (lot 1636).

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