The Jucker Collection of Himalayan Paintings

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Lot 133
  • 133

Bakula and Rahula distemper on cloth Bhutan

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Description

  • Bakula and Rahula
  • distemper on cloth
  • 32 1/4 by 23 2/3 in. (82 by 60 cm.)
Bakula with his mongoose seated before an altar table supporting a crystal bowl of jewels, and seated in a garden landscape with Rahula holding a golden jeweled crown.

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