A well-preserved thangka depicting four Sakya Hierarchs, Tibet, Sakya school, Ngor monastery, 16th century | 薩迦派 俄爾寺 十六世紀 藏傳四喇嘛唐卡 設色布本

Swiss Private Collection.

Galerie Koller, Zurich, 25th / 26th June 1993, lot 17

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瑞士私人收藏

Koller藝廊，蘇黎世，1993年6月25-26日，編號17

The bearded and moustachioed Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen (1147-1216) appears upper left wearing a distinctive white cloud-patterned robe, seated adjacent to Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182-1251), with Chogyal Pagpa Lodro Gyaltsen (1235-1280) below left and Shang Konchog Pal (1240-1308) to the right, each seated on a lion throne with golden arches (torana) supported by lotus stems issuing from long-life vases (kalasha). The hierarchs are surrounded by diminutive mahasiddhas, and Vajrasattva, Luipa and Nagarjuna above centre, all depicted in red roundels on a deep blue ground interspersed with gold auspicious emblems. The painting is framed with what is likely the original blue silk fishtail mounts and green silk edging down each side.

Four other paintings are known from this famous sixteenth century series, with one in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, see Pratapaditya Pal, Art of Tibet, Los Angeles, 1983, P15. One from the Jucker Collection was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 28th March 2006, lot 63. Another, formerly in the Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection was published by Pratapaditya Pal, The Art of Tibet, Asia House Gallery, 1969, fig. 8. And another is in the Barbara and Walter Frey Collection, see Jeff Watt, www.himalayanart.org, item no. 69103.

The Nepalese painting style is related to the set of Tibetan fifteenth century Lamdre lineage thangkas commissioned by Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo (1382-1456) for the Sakya monastery of Ngor which he founded in 1429, see lot 31: compare the palette, the format of the lion thrones and the supports issuing from golden kalasha vases.

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此幅唐卡左上方見捷尊札巴堅贊（1147–1216），面帶髯鬚，身著白雲紋袍，優雅端坐於薩迦．班智達．貢噶堅贊（1182–1251）旁，左下為八思巴．洛哲堅贊（1235–1280），右側為香棍秋巴（1240–1308）。四名高僧席於獅紋寶座，後飾金拱門，以長壽瓶中蓮花莖為柱。四位高僧周圍環繞著袖珍大成就者像，中心紅圓環內描繪金剛薩埵、呂伊巴和龍樹聖者等，背景以深藍襯托，並金色吉祥物圖紋作為點綴。此唐卡以魚尾式藍絲綢裝裱天地邊，兩側帶有綠色絲綢邊，應為原裱。

本作為十六世紀著名唐卡系列畫作，可參考其他四幅名作。其一藏於洛杉磯郡藝術博物館，見普拉塔帕迪亞．帕爾所著《西藏藝術》，洛杉磯，1983年，頁15。另一幅來自於Jucker收藏，於2006年3月28日於紐約蘇富比拍出，拍品編號63。第三幅，曾屬於Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck收藏，刊登於拉塔帕迪亞．帕爾之《西藏藝術》，亞洲之家畫廊，1969年，圖版8。第四幅為巴巴拉與沃爾特．弗雷伉儷收藏，詳見Jeff Watt於www.himalayanart.org上之資料，編號69103。

此尼泊爾畫風唐卡與十五世紀薩迦派道果傳承風格相似，由俄爾欽．貢噶桑波 （1382–1456）為其所創建之俄爾寺委託所製，該寺於1429年創建，詳見拍品31。可比較畫作支色調、獅紋寶座樣式及長壽金瓶之花葉支託。