Himalayas: The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Important Tibetan Paintings and other Himalayan Works of Art
Himalayas: The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Important Tibetan Paintings and other Himalayan Works of Art
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A thangka depicting the Luohan Nagasena, Tibet, 17th century | 西藏 十七世紀 佛教大師那先唐卡 設色布本
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10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst
A thangka depicting the Luohan Nagasena
Tibet, 17th century
distemper on cloth, Nagasena seated on a yoke-back throne holding a kundika bottle, with the patrons Hvashang, holding a mala and fruit, and Dharmatala with kundika and flywhisk and a set of texts on his back and a tiger at his feet, the Guardians Virupaksha and Vaishravana standing below, and the landscape and sky above with mahasiddhas and Tibetan adepts
85 x 62 cm, 33 1/2 by 25 5/8 in.
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Collection Richard R. et Magdalena Ernst
Tangka représentant le luohan Nagasena, détrempe sur toile, Tibet, XVIIe siècle
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西藏 十七世紀 佛教大師那先唐卡 設色布本
The painting is one of a set of perhaps seven paintings that would have conventionally depicted the sixteen Luohans, the two patrons, the four Guardian kings and Shakyamuni Buddha with his two disciples Maudgalyayana and Shariputra: for a complete set of seven thangkas see Blanche Christine Olschak, Mystic Art of Ancient Tibet, London and Boston, 1987, pp. 66-7.
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本幅唐卡可能為一套七幅畫中的一幅。一套七幅畫唐卡一般描繪的是十六羅漢、兩位施主、四位護法王、釋迦牟尼佛與其弟子毛利根和舍利弗。完整一組七幅唐卡之參考，見Blanche Christine Olschak，《古代西藏的神秘藝術》，倫敦和波士頓，1987，第66-7頁。