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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF THE SECOND PANCHEN LAMA, LOBSANG YESHE PELZANGPO TIBET, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY image 1
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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF THE SECOND PANCHEN LAMA,
LOBSANG YESHE PELZANGPO
TIBET, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY
Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art
21 March 2023, 18:00 EDT
New York

US$6,000 - US$8,000

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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF THE SECOND PANCHEN LAMA,
LOBSANG YESHE PELZANGPO

TIBET, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 1407
3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm) high

Footnotes

西藏 約十八世紀 銅鎏金二世班禪喇嘛洛桑益西像

This portrait image depicts the Second Panchen Lama, Lobsang Yeshe Pelzangpo (1663-1737) pinching his finger and thumb together in the gesture of teaching (vitarka mudra) while holding a lidded alms bowl in his left hand. Although the Tibetan inscription behind his square cushion allows for easy identification, Lobsang Yeshe's features, especially his pronounced chin and large, protruding ears, are so distinctive that he can be identified even if he were dressed in a different garb, an example of which is published in National Museum of History, Faces of Dharma: Selected Works of Tibetan Buddhist art, Taipei, 2012, pp. 78-9, no. 36. At the age of eight, Lobsang Yeshe received novice vows from the Great Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682), and years later he witnessed the vows taken by both the Sixth and Seventh Dalai Lamas. For another example depicting the same individual, see a gilt bronze sold at Bonhams, New York, 14 March 2017, lot 3295.

Published:
David Weldon & Jane Casey, Faces of Tibet: The Wesley and Carolyn Halpert Collection, Carlton Rochell Ltd., New York, no. 49.

Provenance:
The Wesley and Carolyn Halpert Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 24 March 2004, lot 73
The Rapoport Collection, New York

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