Printing Block for a Devotional Print or Prayer Flag

by Himalayan Buddhist Woodblock

$9,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A large Bhutanese Buddhist woodblock, carved with a dense field of Tibetan script, central devotional imagery, and a richly ornamented border for the printing of a religious text or image-bearing devotional impression. This woodblock was made for printing a combined text and image composition onto paper or cloth. The central field is densely carved with mirror-reversed Tibetan script, arranged around a seated Buddhist figure. The surrounding border gives the block an

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