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Auction archive: Lot number 116

An Unusual Thangka of Two Sakya Nuns

Auction 25.03.2004
25 Mar 2004
Estimate
US$4,500 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$6,572
Auction archive: Lot number 116

An Unusual Thangka of Two Sakya Nuns

Auction 25.03.2004
25 Mar 2004
Estimate
US$4,500 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$6,572
Beschreibung:

An Unusual Thangka of Two Sakya Nuns Tibet, 19th Century The two figures painted with delicate features within a dark aureole, wearing patchwork robes, standing on a lotus and pedestal with offerings before them, surrounded by smaller depictions of 11-headed Avalokiteshvara, the Medicine Buddha, Green Tara and White Tara, and attended by a monk at lower right; with abraided inscription below lotus jetsunma ; the reverse consecrated and bearing a 9-line dedicatory inscription to Sangye Kunga Zangpo 16 x 11 3/8 in. (40.6 x 28.9 cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 116
Auction:
Datum:
25 Mar 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

An Unusual Thangka of Two Sakya Nuns Tibet, 19th Century The two figures painted with delicate features within a dark aureole, wearing patchwork robes, standing on a lotus and pedestal with offerings before them, surrounded by smaller depictions of 11-headed Avalokiteshvara, the Medicine Buddha, Green Tara and White Tara, and attended by a monk at lower right; with abraided inscription below lotus jetsunma ; the reverse consecrated and bearing a 9-line dedicatory inscription to Sangye Kunga Zangpo 16 x 11 3/8 in. (40.6 x 28.9 cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 116
Auction:
Datum:
25 Mar 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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