Lot 277
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Onze petites plaques votives en terre cuite laquée rouge et or Tsha Tsha Chine, dynastie Qing, marque et époque Qianlong (1736-1795)

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

chaque plaque représentant une divinité bouddhique ou tantrique, Amitayus, Bouddha, Bothisattva, Mahakala, entourée d'une mandorle, le dos portant une marque Qianlong et une inscription en Chinois, Tibétain, Mandchou et Mongol (excepté pour la plus grande) 

Condition

All with chips and flakes to the edges ; expected rubbing to the gilding and to the red lacquer back.
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Catalogue Note

Small votive plaques are known in tibetan as tsha tsha. They were made to serve as portable shrines and to be inserted into large stupas to increase the container's potency.
Usually each plaque has on its back inscriptions identifying the deities in four languages. See a very interesting set from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum, illustrated in P. Pal, Art of Tibet - A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Los Angeles 1985, pp.252-253