A SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE INLAID LOW-ALLOY SILVER MINIATURE SHRINE OF GANESHA NEPAL

Description:

Nepal
H. 8,7 cm
The shrine is consisting of two section with Ganesha standing in dancing posture on a lotus base with the rat in front of him, his four arms radiating around his body, wearing skirt, bejewelled, his elephant head with curling trunk and a double halo behind, its reverse set the mantras ‘aum ah hum’, placed on a stepped rectangular base set with a pair of rats to its front, its top with an incised vajra-emblem and the reverse decorated with the ‘endless knot’ emblem, both Ganesha and the base lavishly set with semi-precious stones, including red-coral, turquoise and lapis lazuli.
From an Austrian private collection, acquired prior to 2007