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Padmasambhava

CultureTibeto-Chinese
Date18th century
MediumOpaque watercolor on cotton with silk mount and gold brocade
DimensionsImage: 77 × 55 1/2 inches (195.58 × 140.97 cm)
Mount: 138 5/8 × 90 1/2 inches (352.11 × 229.87 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-268
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

Siamese and Tibetan Paintings and Bronzes, Norfolk Society of Arts, VA, November 7–28, 1948, no. 29 as Bearded figure of Padmasambhava seated on lotus throne.

Provenance

With T'ien Fu Kuan-I Ku Chai, Peiping (modern-day Beijing), China, by May 2, 1934 [1];

Purchased from T'ien Fu Kuan-I Ku Chai, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

NOTES:

[1] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.

Published References

No published references known at this time.

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