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Lot 954
  • 954

A THANGKA DEPICTING KUNZANG GYALWA DUPA TIBET, 18TH CENTURY |

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Distemper on cloth
  • 73 x 42 cm
with five heads and ten arms, holding symbols of the sun and the moon before his heart, his emblem the swastika in his middle right hand, seated in vajraparyankasana on a throne, with khyung bird and mythical animals beneath, the landscape filled with lamas of Kunsang Gyalwa Dupa’s cult Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18460.

Catalogue Note

The deity is known by his epithet The All-Good Assembly of Conquerors: for an important fifteenth century depiction of the deity with the same iconography, see Per Kvaerne, The Bon Religion of Tibet, London, 1995, p. 61, pl. 15.