BANNIÈRE EN SOIE PEINTE REPRÉSENTANT L'OFFRANDE POUR SHADBHUJA MAHAKALA ET BEGTSE CHEN TIBET, XIXE SIÈCLEBANNIÈRE EN SOIE PEINTE REPRÉSENTANT L'OFFRANDE POUR SHADBHUJA MAHAKALA ET BEGTSE CHENTIBET, XIXE SIÈCLE Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205059 The embroidery: 337 x 65 cm (132 5/8 x 25 5/8 in.); With mounts: 359 x 89 cm (141 3/8 x 35 1/8 in.)A PAINTED SILK BANNER OFFERING FOR SHADBHUJA MAHAKALA AND BEGTSE CHEN TIBET, 19TH CENTURY 西藏 十八/十九世紀 彩繪絹本供獻六臂大黑天及大紅司命主掛幅This impressive and superbly drawn banner was created as Wrathful Offerings (kangdze) to Shadbhuja Mahakala and Beg Tse Chen. At the center of all the wrathful implements, vestments, and attire that are special to both wrathful deities is a torma offering and substances in three skull bowls at the base of Mt. Meru surrounded by horseshoe-shaped body of water. Located directly above is a row of offering goddesses presenting special tributes sheltered beneath a curtain of wrathful faces suspended by entrails held in the teeth of dried skulls. The lower register contains a host of horses, goats, yaks, wild dogs, bears, tigers, leopards, lions, snow lions, and ogres. These types of paintings would Commonly hung in the smaller protector temples of monasteries, these types of paintings represented tailored offerings to specific deities. Compare with a closely related example in the Rubin Museum of Art (HAR 877). Provenance:Ashencaen and Leonov, London, 2000s