Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Online Only Sale - 20th August 2026
Lot 99
A TIBETAN THANGKA
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £610
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Description
A TIBETAN THANGKA
LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY
depicting Sadakshari Lokeshvara, with four other deities, within a green blue landscape with auspicious symbols, the reverse with script, in a fabric scroll,
the image 43cm by 33cm, the whole 68cm high,
and a Tibetan thankga, depicting Mahakala, holding a vajra and surrounded by flames, above a stupa, the reverse with script, 60cm by 39cm, the whole 107cm high (2)
Provenance
Private Collection, UK, and thence by descent.
Extract from present owners grandfathers journal - ”Tibetan War Leave, May 1943. Tankas bought from a Chinese dealer whilst trekking over Na-tu-la pass to Tibet, part of the silk route…..”