A THANG-KA DEPICTING A WRATHFUL DEITY

A THANG-KA DEPICTING A WRATHFUL DEITY, EASTERN TIBET, 19TH CENTURY

pigment on cloth, the red coloured figure with three eyes, seated in padmasana on a lotus growing out of a lake in a hilly landscape, holding a staff in one hand and a skull cup in the other, Atisha and Padmasambhava seated on floating clouds in the upper corners, mantras in Tibetan script on the reverse, brocaded silk mount

29cm x 21cm (painting)

Provenance: Acquired by Oliver Robert Coales in Eastern Tibet in 1916-1917