A PAUBHA DEPICTING LAKSHACHAITYA NEPAL, DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO 1644 |

depicting the adoration of a brick-built chaitya in the Kathmandu Valley, with Amitabha Buddha seated within a niche, Sariputra and Maudgalyayana to either side holding patra and khakkhara staff,  a vajracharya below on the left and a devotee to the right, both making offerings, with myriad stupa throughout, Chandra and Surya seated above, with the Five Tathagatas in the upper register, a vajracharya performing homa puja with devotees and donor family in lower registers Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18336.

Wear, some losses to pigment, accretion and creasing throughout, as viewed. Additional wear to deities to upper register. Framed in the cloth mount.
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Compare a Dharmadhatu Stupa paubha dated 1653, formerly in the Jucker Collection, see Sotheby’s New York, March 28, 2006, lot 10; and compare the painting style with a ca. 1650 Abhisarika Nayika from a ragamala series in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, see Pratapaditya Pal, The Arts of Nepal: Painting, Leiden, 1978, pl. 181.