A SMALL TIBETAN PAINTING ON COTTON

A SMALL TIBETAN PAINTING ON COTTON, TSAKLI

BURIATIA, 19TH CENTURY

Painted with pigments and gilt with Yamantaka, the multi-armed and multi-legged wrathful god, holding a kapala and a flaying knife, standing on bodies of people and animals, framed and glazed, the reverse with a paper label for Spink & Son Ltd., 8.5cm x 10cm.

Cf. Illustrated in Art of Buriatia, Buddhist Icons from Southern Siberia, Spink catalogue p.38, no.32.