A JAPANESE BUDDHIST SCROLL PAINTING

A JAPANESE BUDDHIST SCROLL PAINTING, KAKEMONO

EDO PERIOD OR EARLIER, 18TH CENTURY OR EARLIER

In ink and colour on silk, depicting the six-armed Wisdom King Aizen Myo-o holding his various attributes including a vajra, a ghanta, a lotus bud and a bow and arrow, seated on an elaborate lotus throne raised on a kalasa vase, a large red orb enveloping the god and with Buddhist jewels scattered around him, 79cm x 36cm.

See the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, access. no.66.90 for a scroll painting with related iconography dated to the 14th century.