A PAIR OF TIBETAN PAINTED WOODEN DOORS

A PAIR OF TIBETAN PAINTED WOODEN DOORS
19TH CENTURY

Probably from a monastic cabinet, each door painted with Mahakala's face below which offerings are placed in kapalas, within a border of grinning human skulls and two flayed humans skins, with a modern black stand, the doors, 86cm high x 67.5cm wide, the stand, 99cm high x 72cm wide. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Mr Nicholas Squire (1949-2024), Suffolk, England, purchased from Spink, London, 23rd September 1992, a copy of the invoice is available. A copy of a Spink valuation document dated 4th December 1992 is also available.

Published: Spink, Tibetan Art at Spink, 1992, no.52.

Cf. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession no. M.2010.78.16 for a 19th/20th century Tibetan cabinet with similarly painted doors, see also accession no. M.2010.78.3 at the same museum for another related cabinet.

十九世紀 漆木彩繪大黑天忿怒神門板
來源: 英國薩福克郡Nicholas Squire先生（1949-2024）收藏，1992年9月23日購於倫敦古董商附發票複印件，及Spink 1992年12月4日的估價文件複印件。
出版: Spink, Tibetan Art at Spink, 1992年, 52號。