Lot 132
  • 132

Panthaka and Nagasena distemper on cloth Bhutan

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Description

  • Panthaka and Nagasena
  • distemper on cloth
  • 32 1/4 by 23 2/3 in. (82 by 60 cm.)
Panthaka seated before a temple complex reading from a manuscript to an assembly below, with Nagasena standing to his side holding a kakkhara staff and jambara fruit.

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