A thangka depicting Drala Tatug Karpo, Inner Mongolia, Qing dynasty, 18th century | 內蒙古 清十八世紀 威勝天王唐卡 設色布本

Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst

A thangka depicting Drala Tatug Karpo

Inner Mongolia, Qing dynasty, 18th century 

distemper on cloth, dressed in armour and boots and flowing robes and scarf, a helmet with plume and trident finial and fierce feline heads at either side, a sword and quiver slung from the waist, holding a bamboo staff raised in his right hand and riding a white horse with tiger-skin saddle cloth, together with his eight similarly attired and mounted Drala brothers, blue Vajrapani above and Mount Meru beneath surrounded by the seven symbols of the Chakravartin, and tantric offerings in landscape below

52 x 32 cm, 20 1/2 by 12 5/8 in. 

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Collection Richard R. et Magdalena Ernst

Tangka représentant Drala Tatug Karpo, détrempe sur toile, Mongolie-Intérieure, dynastie Qing, XVIIIe siècle

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