TWO GILT-COPPER EMBOSSED THRONE SECTIONS

Description:

Nepal, ca. 16th c.
H. je ca. 20 cm (o.S.)
The first oblong-shaped panel depicting the standing and four-armed Vishnu wearing dhoti, bejewelled and displaying a serene facial expression: and the second panel with the standing Garuda, both hands in anjalimudra, wings behind and his face with a pointed beak , on perspex stands.
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection number BN 23/ 24 - Partly with damages