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Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection 雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品

A gilt-copper alloy figure of Trisong Detsen Tibet, 18th - 19th century | 十八至十九世紀 西藏鎏金銅赤松德贊坐像

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May 26, 02:57 AM GMT

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50,000 - 70,000 HKD

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Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection

A gilt-copper alloy figure of Trisong Detsen

Tibet, 18th - 19th century

雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品

十八至十九世紀 西藏鎏金銅赤松德贊坐像


Himalayan Art Resources item no. 11045.

喜瑪拉雅藝術資源網,編號11045

25 cm

Please note that the provenance for this lot is: Sotheby's New York, 24th September 1997, lot 105. 請注意本拍品的來源為:紐約蘇富比1997年9月24日,編號105。

Sotheby's New York, 24th September 1997, lot 105.


紐約蘇富比1997年9月24日,編號105

John Clarke, 'Ga'u: The Tibetan Amulet Box', Arts of Asia, May-June 2001, cover.


John Clarke,〈Ga'u: The Tibetan Amulet Box〉, 《Arts of Asia》,2001年5/6月,封面

Trisong Detsen (r. 755-798)  was the second Great King of Tibet, who established Samye Ling as the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet, and invited the Indian guru Padmasambhava to bring Buddhism to the land: Padmasambhava is revered by Tibetan Buddhists who regard him as a second Buddha. Another gilt copper alloy figure of Trisong Detsen, one of a group of the Three Great Kings of Tibet, illustrated in Martin Brauen, ed., The Dalai LamasA Visual History, Zürich, Chicago, 2005, pp. 28-29, pl. 14 a-c, was sold in our Paris rooms, 11th December 2020, lot 40.