with hands in dhyana mudra holding a kalasha, seated on a lotus throne in a mountain setting, all painted in gold on a red background, with repeated images of Amitayus throughout Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18315.

Good overall condition. Framed in silk mount. With scattered areas of creasing, surface abrasion and minor losses of pigment throughout.
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Compare the myriad deities in the background to central figures in two nineteenth century Tibetan tsertang paintings in the Museo Nationale d'Arte Orientale, Rome, see Jeannine Auboyer and Gilles Béguin, Dieux et démons de l'Himâlaya: Art du Bouddhisme lamaïque, Paris, 1977, cat. nos. 266 and 267.