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146. A TIBETAN THANGKA WITH PORTRAIT OF A SAKYA HIERARCH.

Closed 10 Jun 2025
Auction number 146
Lot Number 4294324
Sold for 175 000 SEK
To be hammered Closed
Location Stockholms Auktionsverk Nybrogatan 32
The item has been hammered.

Sitting dressed in a golden robe on his throne with his hands in vajrahumkaramudra holding a vajra and a ghanta, surrounded by different teachers/dignitaries, and at the top Hevajra, a key deity in the Sakya tradition. Tibetan text in gold in ujen-script. The Thangka belongs to a set of paintings, according to the tibetan inscription on the back, number three right. Distemper on cloth, the painting is set within a framework (thang ka´igos sam) of silk brocade. Late 19th century/ca 1900. Image c. 75 x 46 cm, totally c. 130 x 62 cm.

PROVENANCE:
The Professor of Indology at Stockholm University and a scholar of Sanskrit and the Newar language, Siegfried Lienhard (1924-2011). He was also a member of The Swedish Royal Academy for the Humanities.

Wear, burstings, damages, creases and stains. Please contact elisabet.fellbom@auktionsverket.se for more information.

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