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A WOOD MANUSCRIPT COVER WITH BUDDHA, SHADAKSHARI, AND PRAJNAPARAMITA, TIBET, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
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A WOOD MANUSCRIPT COVER WITH BUDDHA, SHADAKSHARI, AND PRAJNAPARAMITA, TIBET, 14TH-15TH CENTURYFinely carved in varying degrees of relief, depicting Buddha Shakyamuni at the center with his right hand held in bhumisparsha mudra, surrounded by pairs of lions and makaras below Garuda, flanked by Prajnaparamita to his right below a kirtimukha mask and Shadakshari Lokeshvara to his left topped by the Three Jewels, each framed by vases issuing flowers supporting a bird, all surrounded by scrolling foliage and enclosed within beaded and foliate borders.Each deity is seated in dhyanasana atop a lotus base raised on a rectangular plinth supported by lions. The short sides each carved with a central stupa and scrolling foliage.Provenance: Swiss trade. Acquired from a private collection in Switzerland.Condition: Very good condition with expected wear, signs of tactile worship, few minor age cracks, small nicks, light scratches, old smoothened chips mostly to corners. The wood with a rich, naturally grown, dark patina.Weight: 1,054 gDimensions: Length 38.3 cmThe art of writing and making books was brought to Tibet from India in the seventh century when Tibet fervently embraced Buddhism as its new religion. According to Tibetan historical records, it was Srongtsan Gampo's gifted minister Thonmi Sambhota who devised the Tibetan script and grammar. He is said to have been sent to India to learn Sanskrit and to produce the Tibetan writing system based on the Indian script current at that time. Prior to becoming a Buddhist country, Tibet had no script of its own.Prior to the introduction of paper, the material used for recording texts in ancient India consisted mainly of either palm leaves or the bark of the birch tree. The shape of palm leaves seems to have determined the format of manuscripts, because even when paper was introduced it was cut into similar rectangular sheets of varied sizes depending on the requirements. This specific format of manuscripts was inherited by the Tibetans. Average size manuscripts were about sixty centimeters wide and ten to fifteen centimeters high. The leaves of individual manuscripts were not bound together but fastened with a string or wrapped in pieces of cloth, and each leaf was numbered and inscribed with a short title of the text, while the images carved on the manuscript covers usually represented the chief deities or heroes of the texts within the covers.Tibetans embarked on the monumental task of translating Indian Buddhist scriptures into their own language during the period known as the Chidar, in the late tenth century, once the Tibetan writing systems imported from India, together with their methods of preservation and dissemination, had been established. Thousands of Sanskrit works were rendered into Tibetan, much of this effort unfolding in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Painted wooden manuscript covers from this period attest to the meticulous care and profound reverence with which Tibetans safeguarded their sacred texts.Expert's note: The resplendent throne-backs and foliage here testify to the stylistic influence of Newari artists on Tibetan manuscript covers following their migration from the sacked Buddhist monasteries of India in the thirteenth century. Selig Brown notes that in earlier examples these elements appear as an integrated mass, seeming more segregated in later pieces dating closer to the 16th century. See Selig Brown, Protecting Wisdom, 2012, p. 27-32.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related wood manuscript cover with the Bodhisattva Manjushri Flanked by Vajrapani and Avalokiteshvara, Tibet, circa 14th century, 52.8 cm long, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1979.515. Compare a closely related wood book cover with Buddhist deities, Tibet, 15th-16th century, 45.1 cm long, in the Norton Simon Museum, accession number M.2010.1.208.S.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Bonhams New York, 18 September 2013, lot 2 Price: USD 4,750 or approx. EUR 5,800 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A wood Prajnaparamita manuscript cover, Tibet, 13th/14th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related form, manner of carving, and composition. Note the similar size (35 cm).Auction result comparison:Type: Closely related Auction: Bonhams San Francisco, 10 December 2015, lot 8021 Price: USD 12,500 or approx. EUR 14,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A wood manuscript cover with Prajnaparamita, Tibet, 15th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related form, manner of carving, and composition. Note the larger size (73 cm).

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