Tsongkhapa
CultureTibeto-Chinese
DateQing dynasty (1644-1911)
MediumThangka, silk applique, mounted on brocade
DimensionsImage: 30 3/4 x 18 inches (78.105 x 45.72 cm)
Mount: 33 1/2 x 21 inches (85.09 x 53.34 cm)
Framed: 39 1/2 x 24 x 5 1/2 inches (100.33 x 60.96 x 13.97 cm)
Mount: 33 1/2 x 21 inches (85.09 x 53.34 cm)
Framed: 39 1/2 x 24 x 5 1/2 inches (100.33 x 60.96 x 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-170
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Exhibition HistoryExotic Kingdoms: China and Europe in the Eighteenth Century, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, January 24–February 28, 1982; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, March 12–April 18, 1982, no. 62 as Tsong-k-pa, Founder of the Yellow Cap Sect.
With Yung Ku Chai, Beijing, by 1935;
Purchased from Yung Ku Chai, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
Daphne L. Rosenzweig, Exotic Kingdoms: China and Europe in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, Florida, 1982), 28.
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