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Description: | Domestic Tibetan thangka, made in Kathmandu, Nepal. A modern scroll, printed not painted, depicting Sakyamuni seated in meditation, earth-touching, with a bowl in his left hand; golden skin with uma and usnisam. Sakyamuni is dressed in a patterned red robe with green lining with flap over right shoulder. Sakyamuni is seated on a single lotus throne on a table with two snow lions underneath and offerings before, with a halo and mandorla. The decoration is framed in three borders of machine brocade with floral motifs edged in gold and tassels along the lower border in many colours, including purple, orange, green, yellow, and maroon. There is a backing of printed flowers on a light ground.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1996.271
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1996.271 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | synthetic material Tibetan thangkas textiles weaving textile | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-5602 | Go to resource |
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