A thangka depicting Drala Tatug Karpo, Inner Mongolia, Qing dynasty, 18th century

American Private Collection

The figure is depicted dressed in armour and boots and flowing robes and scarf, a helmet with plume and trident finial and fierce feline heads at either side, a sword and quiver slung from the waist, holding a bamboo staff raised in his right hand and riding a white horse with tiger-skin saddle cloth, together with his eight similarly attired and mounted Drala brothers, blue Vajrapani above and Mount Meru beneath surrounded by the seven symbols of the Chakravartin, and tantric offerings in landscape below.

A closely related example from the collection of Richard and Magdalena Ernst was sold in our Paris rooms, 15th December 2022, lot 25.