A painting on cloth depicting one of the thirty-five Confession Buddhas Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century

seated on a tall throne with an altar table before him, set in fabulous lansdcape

Considerable wear and tear overall with horizontal creases, splits and holes in the canvas, especially in the upper section above the Buddha. Color fields strengthened overall particularly the azurite blue and malachite green.
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Four of the Buddhas of Confession are depicted with the double vitarka mudra, making a firm iconographic attribution uncertain. Compare paintings from the Xumifushou Temple, see Terese Tse Bartholomew, Thangkas of the Qianlong Period, in Jane Casey Singer and Philip Denwood, Tibetan Art: Towards a Definition of Style, London, 1997, pp. 104-117.