A magnificent Tibetan thangka of Hevajra and Nairatmya.... Lot 45
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A magnificent Tibetan thangka of Hevajra and Nairatmya. 19th century
The blue-skinned deity dancing in yab-yum over prostrate figures on a lotus base and backed by a flaming mandorla, he holding skull cups containing eight deities and eight animals in his sixteen hands and she holding a skull cup and curved knife, both crowned deities wearing nothing but finely outlined bone aprons and garlands of dried skulls and freshly severed heads, flanked by monks, lamas and siddhas at the upper area and the eight dakinis from his mandala and further figures below. Inscription to the reverse. Framed and glazed.
80 x 56 cm
Provenance
Collection Leopold Strasser (1919-2010), Munich, acquired 21.11.1978 from Schoettle-Ostasiatica, Stuttgart, and thence by descent. With old invoice
Literature
Published in the sales catalogue of Schoettle-Ostasiatica, Stuttgart, Tibetica 28, October 1974, cat. no. 8511
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