A THANGKA OF PADMASAMBHAVA AS PEMA GYALPO, 17TH - 18TH CENTURY
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Description
Tibet. Distemper on cloth, with a silk brocade frame enhanced with three embroidered flower blooms, mounted as a hanging scroll. Depicting Padmasambhava in prince's robe, holding a damaru and a mirror in his hands and sitting atop a lotus pedestal. Below him two flying Pandits, one with a tiger, above him in the zenith Buddha, as well as a Yidam, and a Nyingma master.
Condition: Commensurate with age, with some old wear and soiling, minor abrasions and creasing, losses, some with associated minuscule touchups. The silk mounting with some tears and losses.
Provenance: Hungarian Private collection, acquired at Koller Auctions, Zürich, in Asiatica on 29 November 2022, lot 171.
Dimensions: Image size 65.5 x 44.5 cm, size incl. mounting 128 x 66 cm
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