A FINE PARCEL GILT SILVER AND COPPER AMULET-BOX, GAHU

Description:

Tibet, 19th c.
H. 20 cm
The horse-shoe shaped amulet-box decorated to its part-gilt silver front with scrolling tendrils encompassing various bird and animal specimen, set around the central niche embossed with several divinities and animals, containing a gilt-bronze minute figure of Buddha Shakyamuni seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with his right hand in bhumisparshamudra and his face is displaying a serene expression.
Old German private collection, assembled before 1995 - Very minor traces of age