Lot Essay
The painting is most likely created in a dGe.lugs.pa monastery in China. The painting is based on the Indian Mayajala Tantra text that belongs to the yoga class tantra.
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CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE
Details
RARE THANGKA REPRESENTANT LE DHARMADHATU VAGISHVARA MANJUSHRI MANDALA
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE
A diminutive form of Manjushri is depicted in the centre seated on a lotus. His six hands are holding various attributes. He is placed within a square palace set in concentric bands decorated with scrolling tendrils and four gateways at the cardinal points. The outer borders consist of a band of lotus petals and one of scrolling tendrils. The mandala is placed against a yellow background painted with scrolling lotuses. The painting is mounted on brocade bearing a cloth label inscribed in Tibetan dBu.can stating that it is the ‘twenty-third dharmadhatu manju’.
22¼ x 17 3/8 in. (56.5 x 44 cm.)
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE
A diminutive form of Manjushri is depicted in the centre seated on a lotus. His six hands are holding various attributes. He is placed within a square palace set in concentric bands decorated with scrolling tendrils and four gateways at the cardinal points. The outer borders consist of a band of lotus petals and one of scrolling tendrils. The mandala is placed against a yellow background painted with scrolling lotuses. The painting is mounted on brocade bearing a cloth label inscribed in Tibetan dBu.can stating that it is the ‘twenty-third dharmadhatu manju’.
22¼ x 17 3/8 in. (56.5 x 44 cm.)
Provenance
Christie’s, New York, Indian and Southeast Asian Art, 21 March 2001, lot 152.
Special notice
From time to time, Christie's may offer a lot which it owns in whole or in part. This is such a lot.
Further details
A FINE THANGKA DEPICTING THE DHARMADHATU VAGISHVARA MANJUSHRI MANDALA
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
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