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尼泊爾 維克拉姆歷915年 (公元1795年) 尊勝母佛塔圖
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2021年09月22日 开拍 / 2021年09月20日 截止委托
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尼泊爾 維克拉姆歷915年 (公元1795年) 尊勝母佛塔圖
36 5/8 x 28 in. (93 x 71.1 cm.)
Sotheby's New York, 21 March 2012, lot 310. 拍品专文 This brilliantly colored paubha was commissioned to commemorate a performance of the Bhimaratha rite, celebrating a married couple when either partner reaches the age of seventy-seven years, seven months, and seven days. According to the inscription, dated to 20 May 1795, this painting commemorates the Bhimaratha of Dhanasimha and his wife Jasavati, a couple from the Nardevi neighborhood of Kathmandu. The Inscription reads: Om salutation to goddess honorable Ushniˉshavijayaˉ. Let it be good! This Paubha was made collectively by these family members; the son Maten?asimha, the grand-sons Bhaˉjusimha, Bekhaˉsimha, the great-grand-sons J?aˉnavantasimha, Bahaˉdurasimha, Harshanarasimha, others Guhyes′avariˉ, Thiˉkayamatiˉ, Bhiˉmakhvaˉla, Dhantalakshmiˉ, Taˉraˉvatiˉ, Gunelakshmiˉ [and] Helamatiˉ for two persons Dhanasimha Tuladhar [and his] wife Jas′avatiˉ residing at Yamkulavihaˉra of Nata locality in Wednesday, NS 915 in the month of Jyeshtha, in waxing fortnight, second lunar day. Blessed Cikidhika of Itumbahal, the main Vajracharya priest, Assistant priests Siˉsiˉ, Harsha(..)ju of Toache had consecrated. The Bhiˉmaratha procession was done towards Tengal, Asan tole, Raˉjakula and even Etakhaˉ. Let it be auspicious in all times. [Let it be] Good! Translation by Kashinath Tamot The lower register of the painting depicts the ceremony in three parts. At the right, a Vajracharya priest, whose high rank is denoted by his gilt-copper crown, performs a fire ritual, agni puja. To the left, two more Vajracharya priests consecrate the couple with water from a conch shell. Afterward, the couple is depicted once more in a chariot procession surrounded by the couple’s sons, daughters, siblings and cousins. Their voyage through Kathmandu symbolically represents their voyage to the celestial realm. Strikingly, the seventy-seven-year-olds are not depicted as members of the elder generation, as this passage is also said to regain their youth. Above the ceremony, a monumental stupa emerges from a lotus-filled lake, surrounded by a landscape of rolling mountain peaks. In the center, the six-armed deity Ushinishavijaya, to whom the inscription is dedicated, sits within the dome of the multi-tiered stupa, where textually she is said to reside. Her association with long life and immortality allows her a central role in the milestone Bhimaratha rite. Shrines with images of Buddhist guardian deities, Buddhas, and bodhisattvas, including large and detailed images of Manjushri and Lokeshvara seated upon their vehicles, fill the land surrounding the stupa. Compare the present work to a similarly composed painting formerly in the Jucker Collection, illustrated by H. Kreiger in Kathmandu Valley Painting: The Jucker Collection, Boston, 1999, p. 82, cat. 28. The Jucker example is dedicated with an inscription assigning a date of 1830, probably two generations later than the present example, but commemorating a couple from the same locality, Nardevi. Most examples of this type either lack inscription or are associated with a mid-to-late nineteenth century date, making the present inscribed example rare by its relatively early dating of 1795.

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