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Yama and Yamari
Tibetan
Object Place: Tibet
Medium/Technique
Distemper on cotton, mounted with silk brocades, in panel format
Dimensions
122 x 89.4 cm (48 1/16 x 35 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.2606
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
DescriptionPainting with decorative borders, mounted on support panel. Would have originally been in thangka format.
Large figure of Yama standing on a bull with his consort Yamari next to him, offering a skull cup. He holds a raised sword and a noose. Above, in corners, are monastic figures. On either side of Yama are demonic figures including Palden Lhamo. Below are hell creatures dancing and torturing victims.
Condition poor, with lots of abrasion and pigment loss.
Large figure of Yama standing on a bull with his consort Yamari next to him, offering a skull cup. He holds a raised sword and a noose. Above, in corners, are monastic figures. On either side of Yama are demonic figures including Palden Lhamo. Below are hell creatures dancing and torturing victims.
Condition poor, with lots of abrasion and pigment loss.
ProvenanceBy 1906, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1906, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 1985)