A GILT-COPPER PLAQUE DEPICTING DHRTARASHTRA

Description:

Tibet, ca, 18th c.
40 x 41 cm
The shaped plaque shows the Guardian of the East seated in lalitasana on an antelope-skin, both hands playing the lute, wearing an armour, scarf draped around his shoulders, pair of boots, his face displaying a severe expression with open eyes below raised eyebrows, red coloured pouting lips and his head topped with a finely worked-out helmet.
Old Munich private collection, assembled before 1995
Minor traces of age and wear, very slightly chipped