A THANGKA DEPICTING AN AMITABHA IN SUKHAVATI SINO-TIBETAN, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

red Amitabha at center with lustrous red and gold silk robes seated in his pure land of Sukavati, surrounded by luxuriant foliage and celestial beings, flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Aajradhara, with further bodhisattvas below, the human realm in the lower register with supplicants, guardians and beasts making peaceful offerings

Acquired privately in Los Angeles, early 1970s; thence by descent.

Wear, rubbing, accretion, and distress to ground muslin, overall. Framed in a textile mount.
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