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Compare with an earlier painting of the same subject at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012.4550)
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NEPAL, 19TH CENTURY
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A PAINTING OF A STUPA WITH USHNISHAVIJAYA
NEPAL, 19TH CENTURY
Finely detailed, depicting a large white stupa with the white, multi-armed goddess of long life, Ushnishavijaya at center, the five Pancha Raksha Goddesses below, the stupa flanked on either side by four wrathful protector's backed by flaming aureoles, with five worldly gods in the outer left and right registers, and two forms of Manjushri seated above, surrounded by apsaras and the five symbolic Buddhas seated in the top register, all set amidst a mountainous and cloud-filled landscape with a cascading river, a chariot ritual procession along the bottom.
Opaque pigments and gold on textile
32 1/8 x 22 1/3 in. (81.7 x 56.8 cm.)
NEPAL, 19TH CENTURY
Finely detailed, depicting a large white stupa with the white, multi-armed goddess of long life, Ushnishavijaya at center, the five Pancha Raksha Goddesses below, the stupa flanked on either side by four wrathful protector's backed by flaming aureoles, with five worldly gods in the outer left and right registers, and two forms of Manjushri seated above, surrounded by apsaras and the five symbolic Buddhas seated in the top register, all set amidst a mountainous and cloud-filled landscape with a cascading river, a chariot ritual procession along the bottom.
Opaque pigments and gold on textile
32 1/8 x 22 1/3 in. (81.7 x 56.8 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, New York, acquired in Florida by 1995
Literature
Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 23947
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Sandhya Jain-Patel