Angaja and Ajita distemper on cloth Bhutan

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Description

Angaja and Ajita
distemper on cloth
32 1/4 by 23 2/3 in. (82 by 60 cm.)

Angaja seated with hands in held in namaskara mudra holding the handle of an incense burner and with a flywhisk resting against his right shoulder, seated in a mountain landscape together with Ajita in meditation with his chin supported by a crutch.

Literature

Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 2001, p. 90, no. 30

Catalogue Note

The painting is mounted with fine Chinese brocades and lined with Bhutanese woven silk textile; see Myers and Bean, eds, 1994, p. 175, fig. 7.7