喜瑪拉雅藝術資源網編號68469

阿什莫林博物館，牛津，1996-2005年借展
《The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection》，阿什莫林博物館，牛津，1999年10-12月
《Arte Buddhista Tibetana: Dei e Demoni dell’ Himalaya》，Palazzo Bricherasio，都靈，2004年6-9月
魯賓藝術博物館，紐約，2005-2017年借展
《Casting the Divine: Sculptures of the Nyingjei Lam Collection》，魯賓藝術博物館，紐約，2012-2013年

David Weldon 及 Jane Casey Singer，《The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection》，倫敦，1999年，圖49
Franco Ricca，《Arte Buddhista Tibetana: Dei e Demoni dell’ Himalaya》，都靈，2004年，圖50

Good overall condition. Wear to gilding throughout, particularly to face. Both niches atop lotus petals at proper right and left now empty. Baseplate intact. Minor bending to antelope skin appendages on throne base.
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The Nyingjei Lam Collection contains a wide array of Tibetan portrait sculpture from the twelfth through seventeenth century. Without inscriptions or distinctive characteristics, it is often a challenge to accurately identify these figures. In the current work, the empty niches within flaming mandorlas atop the two lotus flowers may have held miniature deities or lamas, a rare and wonderful devotional element which may have held the key to identifying this person or lineage of this unnamed hierarch.