A POLYCHROME WOOD TEMPLE DOOR

Description:

Tibet, ca 1900
202 x 112 cm
Both doors set in a frame and topped with a shaped panel, painted in gay colors with various designs including a kirttimukha at the top, each door panel with a animal-of-prey next to a water from which is rising a scrolling flower perched with birds and animals and the frame is decorated with scrolling tendrils.
From a German private collection, acquired prior to 2007
Traces of age