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Lot 6439
Two Tibetan thangka 19th Century
23 August 2010, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$2,440 inc. premium
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19th Century
Each gilt and gouache on fabric, cut down, now framed and glazed; the first an oval fragment centered on Avalokitesvara in his Aryavalokitesvara manifestation with eleven heads and one thousand arms; the second of a female bodhisattva standing with a padma at her left shoulder and displaying the vitarka and varada mudras while surrounded by attendant figures including lay donors, a long textual passage at the bottom margin (extensive wear).
27 x 18in (68.5 x 45.8cm) [second]
Each gilt and gouache on fabric, cut down, now framed and glazed; the first an oval fragment centered on Avalokitesvara in his Aryavalokitesvara manifestation with eleven heads and one thousand arms; the second of a female bodhisattva standing with a padma at her left shoulder and displaying the vitarka and varada mudras while surrounded by attendant figures including lay donors, a long textual passage at the bottom margin (extensive wear).
27 x 18in (68.5 x 45.8cm) [second]