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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 22, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Himalayan Art | 970 | $****** - ****** | A THANGKA DEPICTING THE EIGHTH DALAI LAMA |
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88 x 61 cm (34.63 x 24 in)
Galerie Koller Zürich, 27 November 1993, lot 4.
“Die 14 Dalai Lamas”, Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zürich, 4 August 2005-30 April 2006.
David Jackson, A History of Tibetan Painting: The Great Tibetan Painters and Their Traditions, Wein, 1996, p. 359, pl. 67
Martin Brauen, ed, The Dalai Lamas: A Visual History, Chicago, 2005, p. 118. cat. no. 80
David Jackson, The Place of Provenance: Regional Styles in Tibetan Painting, New York, 2012, p. 46, fig. 3.19
Jampel Gyatso with right hand raised holding the stem of a lotus flower supporting pustaka and khadja, the emblems of Manjushri, the left holding a golden dharmachakra wheel, wearing voluminous robes and the yellow cap of the Gelukpa order, seated on a cushion set on the Snow Lion Throne of office, a further cushion behind draped with white khatta, sumptuous textiles covering the back of the throne with a khakkhara resting against its yoke-back dragon finial, tables on either side supporting stacks of bound sutra to the left and a red and blue pitaka basket to the right, two monks below holding a Meru mandala and a vessel standing either side of a dais supporting an astamangala offering, and before an altar table set with a large blue patra containing bilva fruit, a lidded kapala, vajra, ghanta, damaru, kalasha, chisal, stem cup and stand, auspicious emblems and an incense burner, an Indian yogi bearing a golden kalasha and leading a white elephant below, together with musicians, Four Guardians of the Directions and deities offering auspicious emblems, with groups of officials, monks and devotees surrounding the Lion Throne, the Potala Palace to the left with apsaras in clouds above, and the Dalai Lama’s birthplace to the right connected by a gold line to his spiritual progenitor Sadaksari Avalokitesvara above, Shakyamuni Buddha at the top flanked by the Third Panchen Lama Lopsang Palden Yeshe to the left and the Dalai Lama’s teacher Yeshe Gyaltsen to the right, all set in a flower-filled mountainous landscape with the sun and moon in clouded skies above, and framed in borders of silk brocade
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18347.