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A VERY RARE AND EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE IMPERIAL SILK BROCADE THANKA

Auction 29.03.2006
29.03.2006
Schätzpreis
100.000 $ - 150.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
329.600 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 275

A VERY RARE AND EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE IMPERIAL SILK BROCADE THANKA

Auction 29.03.2006
29.03.2006
Schätzpreis
100.000 $ - 150.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
329.600 $
Beschreibung:

A VERY RARE AND EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE IMPERIAL SILK BROCADE THANKA YONGLE SIX-CHARACTER PRESENTATION MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1403-1425) Exceptionally woven in lampas weave with gold and brilliant colored silk threads on a green satin ground, the central figure of Mahakala Panjarnatha, Lord of the Pavilion, holding a kartri or flaying knife and kapala or skull cup in his hands and with a jeweled baton supported across his forearms, the wrathful deity wearing a five-pointed crown set with skulls, his blue body with snake Brahmin-cords twining around his neck, arms and ankles, and a tiger skin and garland of severed heads encircling his waist, trampling beneath his feet a recumbent corpse figure supported on a lotus base, the surrounding flaming nimbus of pristine awareness depicting figures of the deities Bhutadamara Vajrapani and Kartaridhara Mahakala on the left, Ekajati holding a vase and Palden Lhamo riding an ass on the right, with further carrion animals, crows and apsaras , the upper register with sixteen initiation lineage figures, each with a niche-shaped nimbus, arranged in two rows across the top, including Vajradhara, various Tibetan teachers and leaders of the Sakya sect, the bottom register with seven retinue figures holding offerings, framed with a narrow border of double vajra and triple jewels, the upper right woven with a six-character Yongle presentation mark in a vertical line picked out in gold thread Approximately 134 x 87 in. (340.4 x 221 cm.)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 275
Auktion:
Datum:
29.03.2006
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
29 March 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

A VERY RARE AND EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE IMPERIAL SILK BROCADE THANKA YONGLE SIX-CHARACTER PRESENTATION MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1403-1425) Exceptionally woven in lampas weave with gold and brilliant colored silk threads on a green satin ground, the central figure of Mahakala Panjarnatha, Lord of the Pavilion, holding a kartri or flaying knife and kapala or skull cup in his hands and with a jeweled baton supported across his forearms, the wrathful deity wearing a five-pointed crown set with skulls, his blue body with snake Brahmin-cords twining around his neck, arms and ankles, and a tiger skin and garland of severed heads encircling his waist, trampling beneath his feet a recumbent corpse figure supported on a lotus base, the surrounding flaming nimbus of pristine awareness depicting figures of the deities Bhutadamara Vajrapani and Kartaridhara Mahakala on the left, Ekajati holding a vase and Palden Lhamo riding an ass on the right, with further carrion animals, crows and apsaras , the upper register with sixteen initiation lineage figures, each with a niche-shaped nimbus, arranged in two rows across the top, including Vajradhara, various Tibetan teachers and leaders of the Sakya sect, the bottom register with seven retinue figures holding offerings, framed with a narrow border of double vajra and triple jewels, the upper right woven with a six-character Yongle presentation mark in a vertical line picked out in gold thread Approximately 134 x 87 in. (340.4 x 221 cm.)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 275
Auktion:
Datum:
29.03.2006
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
29 March 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
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