AN IMPORTANT AND FINELY PAINTED THANGKA OF LUOHAN KANAKAVATSA MING DYNASTY, 15-16TH CENTURY The thangka is superbly painted depicting the Luohan Kanakavatsa seated on a rock with a halo surrounding his head, holding a running knot in his hands, accompanied by a monk on the left holding a parcel wrapped in brocade, both gazing at a dwarf on the lower left corner offering a transparent bejeweled vase containing a coral branch, all set in a verdant landscape with rugged mountains rendered in the ‘blue and green’ style, with a blue goat and peony shrubs in the foreground. The thangka is framed with its original brocade mounting. Thangka: 31 1/8 x 19 7/8 in. (79 x 50.5 cm.); Overall: 55 5/8 x 27 9/16 in. (141.3 x 70 cm.)
AN IMPORTANT AND FINELY PAINTED THANGKA OF LUOHAN KANAKAVATSA MING DYNASTY, 15-16TH CENTURY The thangka is superbly painted depicting the Luohan Kanakavatsa seated on a rock with a halo surrounding his head, holding a running knot in his hands, accompanied by a monk on the left holding a parcel wrapped in brocade, both gazing at a dwarf on the lower left corner offering a transparent bejeweled vase containing a coral branch, all set in a verdant landscape with rugged mountains rendered in the ‘blue and green’ style, with a blue goat and peony shrubs in the foreground. The thangka is framed with its original brocade mounting. Thangka: 31 1/8 x 19 7/8 in. (79 x 50.5 cm.); Overall: 55 5/8 x 27 9/16 in. (141.3 x 70 cm.)
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