A LARGE TIBETAN THANGKA OF VAJRASATTVA WITH CONSORT.

Tibet, late 18th Century.

Tempera on canvas, depicting the deity seated on a lotus throne in a yab-yum pose with his consort, holding a vajra in his right hand and a bell in the left, surrounded by his one hundred and eighty manifestations, with a mountainous horizon of green peaks in the background, mounted on silk and stretcher, 97 x 65cm.

Provenance: Property from a Private English Collection, predominantly assembled in the 1970s and 1980s.

西藏十八世紀晚期 繪金剛薩埵菩薩像唐卡

來源：英國私人收藏，大部分藏品購得於1970 - 80年間。

The green mountains of the background almost obscured by the repeated figures are an echo of images produced at the Yonghe Temple in Beijing, an important Lama centre of Gelug school. Examples from the temple's collection are published in Beautiful Thangka Paintings in Yonghegong, Beijing, 2001, pp.23, 45 & 53. For a very similar image see the collection of the American Natural History Museum, gifted by the Estate of William B. Whitman in 1937 acc. no. 70.0/6934, HAR item no.94340.

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