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Shâkyamuni
Nepal
ca. 1850
Distemper on cloth
61 x 41 cm (24 x 16 in)
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Provenanace
Private Italian collection, acquired 1980s
Exhibited
Publications

Erberto Lo Bue, Tibet, Dimora Degli Dei, La Rinascente, Milano 1991 , p. 35, n. 5

lmmagini di Fede nel Mondo Tibetano e Himalayano, Florence number nine, Firenze 2014, p. 25, fig. 3.

The central figure, most probably corresponding to a statue actually found in a Buddhist shrine, is sided by a replica of itself, on its proper right (that is left from the point of view of the beholder), and apparently by an image of Ekamâtrkâ Shî Devî (cf. Lokesh Chandra, Buddhist Iconography, nn. 250, 352, 2439) on its proper left. On the upper register the central image of Amitâyus is flanked by those of Ushnîshavijayâ, to his proper right, and Sita Târâ, to his proper left.