The Jucker Collection of Himalayan Paintings

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Lot 57
  • 57

yamari distemper on cloth tibet

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Description

  • yamari
  • distemper on cloth
  • 25 3/4 by 20 3/4 in. (65.5 by 52.5 cm.)
The red deity holding a chakra in each hand standing in pratyalidha in union with his prajna and trampling a buffalo, set against a flaming arch and surrounded by lamas and deities.  

Literature

Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 2001, p. 108, no. 39

Catalogue Note

Compare a very similar fifteenth century Raktayamari now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; see Rhie and Thurman, 1991, pp. 234-5, no. 77