The Jucker Collection of Himalayan Paintings

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Lot 10
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Dharmadhatu Stupa distemper on cloth Nepal

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Description

  • Dharmadhatu Stupa
  • distemper on cloth
  • 19 by 17 3/4 in. (48.5 by 45 cm.)
The stupa with Amitabha seated at its portals and two monks making offerings at either side, garland-bearing vidyadhara with Surya and Chandra above within a field of miniature stupas, Mahakala below flanked by a Vajracharya and donor family, the upper register now missing.

Literature

Hugo E. Kreijger, Kathmandu Valley Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 1999, p. 54, no. 14.

Catalogue Note

The inscription records that the painting was made in samvat 814 (1643) and seems to refer to it as an image of Dharmadhatu.