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AN IMPORTANT THANGKA DEPICTING ZANABAZAR, 19TH CENTURY
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2022年03月11日 开拍
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AN IMPORTANT THANGKA DEPICTING ZANABAZAR, 19TH CENTURY
Mongolia. Distemper and gold on cloth. Seated on a low cushion, backed by a bolster and a halo, dressed in heavy robes, holding a vajra in his raised right hand and a ghanta in his lowered left. An offering of peaches stands before him and a group of small vessels on a low table to his right. The background with green hills under a blue sky behind the elaborate curtain painted with floral scroll. Five-character inscription to backside.

Provenance: From a Hungarian private collection.
Condition: Good condition with only minor wear, little soiling and creasing, and small losses here and there. Possibly minuscule touch-ups.

Dimensions: Image size 32 x 21.5 cm, Size incl. frame 44.9 x 34.6 cm

Matted and framed behind glass.

Jetsun Lobzong Tenpai Gyaltsen (1635-1723), commonly known as Zanabazar, was an important Mongolian religious figure and personal guru to the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722). The son of Khalkha Tushyetü Khan, leader of the Khalkha Mongols, Zanabazar was at an early age recognized by both the Panchen Lama and Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the Tibetan lama, Taranatha (1575-1634), and proclaimed the First Jetsundamba, an honorific title. He traveled to Tibet to continue his religious instruction under the powerful Gelugpa lamas before returning to Mongolia in 1651, bringing fifty sculptors and painters with him in an attempt to establish the Gelug order amongst the Mongols. Rather than settle at one established monastery, his portable temples traveled from one ?rg?? (traveling place) to another, in what became known as Da Khuree (Great Circle).

During his time as religious leader of the Khalkha Mongols, Zanabazar oversaw a proliferation of Buddhist art in the region. He is especially known for his visualization and design of gilt bronze sculpture, subsequently carried out by master Nepalese bronze casters, which are widely recognized as some of the finest Buddhist bronze sculpture created.

In 1691, faced with the threat of the rival Dzungar Mongols, Zanabazar agreed to integrate the Khalkha into the Qing Empire, at a ceremony before the Kangxi Emperor at Dolonnor Monastery. While Zanabazar had previously sent tribute and religious gifts to Kangxi, the formal ceremony solidified the relationship between the two men. In later life, Zanabazar acted as the personal religious teacher to Kangxi in Beijing. With the help of his guru, the Emperor took an increasing interest in Buddhism and established a tradition of Imperial propagation of Buddhist art that continued into the reigns of his son and grandson, the Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperors.

Today, Zanabazar is viewed as one of Mongolia's most important historical figures, celebrated for propagating Tibetan Buddhism throughout Mongolia while reshaping it to fit Mongolian sensibilities, thereby establishing for the Mongols a unique cultural identity. His artistic works are generally regarded as the apogee of Mongolian aesthetic development and spawned a cultural renaissance among Mongols in the late 17th century. Even during the country's socialist era (1921-1991) he was acknowledged to be a prominent scholar (his religious roles quietly discarded) and recognized for his artistic and cultural achievements. As a political personality, however, socialist authorities portrayed Zanabazar as a traitor and deceiver of the masses, responsible for the loss of Mongolian sovereignty to the Manchu. In the post socialist era, however, there has been a reevaluation of his image to where his actions in negotiating the Khalkha's submission to the Qing are considered to have been in the long term interests of Mongolia, and he is generally exonerated for his role in 1691.

Literature comparison: Compare a related Mongolian thangka of Zanabazar, also dated to the 19th century, in the collection of the Rubin Museum of Art, object number C2006.66.587.

十九世紀哲布尊丹巴呼圖克圖唐卡
蒙古。布面描金膠彩。活佛坐在一個矮墊子上,背靠一個靠枕,身後有光背。身著厚重的長袍,舉起的右手拿著金剛杵,低垂的左手拿著金剛杵。 一個桃子供奉在他面前,右邊的一張矮桌上置放著一組小器皿。背景是藍天下的青山,花卉紋窗簾。

來源:匈牙利私人收藏。
品相:狀況良好,只有輕微磨損、少量汙漬和起皺,而且到處都有小缺損。輕微修補。

尺寸:畫面32 x 21.5 厘米,總44.9 x 34.6 厘米

玻璃裝框。

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