Lot 47
  • 47

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

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

seated on a tall throne, with left hand in vitarka mudra, the gesture of argumentation, and the right in the gesture of renunciation, with an altar table before him, set in fabulous landscape

Catalogue Note

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.