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A PAIR OF 'WATER LAND DELIVERANCE RITUAL' PAINTINGS QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- oil on canvas
each portraying five bodhisattva holding their respective attributes, surrounded by scattered floral sprigs, one with a cartouche reading shi da pusa (ten great bodhisattva); the other with five cartouches each bearing the name of one bodhisattva, framed (2)
Provenance
Acquired in New York or Paris circa 1947 by the mother of the present owner and thence by descent.
Catalogue Note
These paintings formed part of a set used in the Buddhist Water Land Deliverance Ritual, in which deities from higher realms of existence are called upon to deliver beings from lower realms from their suffering.