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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 2, 2015 | Christie's | Hong Kong | Masterpieces of Buddhist Art | 2910 | $****** - ****** | THREE FINE AND RARE EMBROIDERED THANGKA OF DEITIES OF THE MEDICINE BUDDHA MANDALA |
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40 x 17.8 cm (15.75 x 7 in)
embroidered
An American Private Collection, New York, acquired from Christie’s New York, 30 March 2005, lots 196-198
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Heavens’ Embroidered Cloths, One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, 1995, nos. 22a, 22c and 22g.<br>New York, Japan Society, Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections, 22 March-11 July 1999, no. 12 (part)<br>
Galloway and Simcox, The Art of Textiles, London, Spink & Son, Ltd., 1989, p. 25, no. 21 (part)<br>V. Reynolds, “The Silk Road: From China to Tibet – and Back,” Orientations, May 1995, figs. 4, 5, and 8<br>
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Each thangka is divided into three registers of decoration framed with a classic scroll couched in gold thread: the top register contains a sacred parasol amid clouds; the middle register with a deity seated on a lotus base under an arch of ruyi clouds supported by vases; all above the lower register with lotus scrolls, the five flower heads each supporting a lantsa character. The three deities represented are Virupaksha, Guardian King of the West, red of skin and dressed in armor; Yama, of the Southern Direction, blue-skinned, holding a stick, and seated on a buffalo; and Yaksha, of the Northern Direction, yellow of skin, holding a vajra scepter and mongoose, and seated on the back of a horse. The details of the three textiles are all picked out in silk threads in tones of blue and green, coral, pink, white, mustard yellow, tan, and white.
