Embroidered Thangka (Inner Mongolia)

Embroidered thangka from Inner Mongolia (?), c. 1780-1850. Embroidered thangka from Inner Mongolia (?), c. 1780-1850. Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. IS.9-1976.

The collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London includes an embroidered thangka that probably derives from Inner Mongolia and dates to the period c. 1780-1850. The thangka has a silk ground material and embroidery worked with silk thread. There are some traces of painting.

According to the curatorial information of the V&A, the thangka depicts Palden Llamo, one (and the only female) of the Eight Great Protectors of Religion (Dharmapala).

See also the Zanabazar Museum in Ulaanbaatar.

V&A online catalogue (retrieved 17 August 2016).

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