AN EMBOSSED COPPER MANDORLA

Description:

Tibet, 15th cent.
H. 32 cm
The horse-shoe shaped aureol for a throne is hammered into two registers, the lower one with a pair of seated divinities on a lotus base, the hands showing different gestures, all placed amidst scrolling tendrils, the upper section with the central placed winged Khyung bird holding with his claws a pair of serpents, below a pair of makaras and all encomppased by scrolling volutes, traces of gilding.
From the collection of the diplomat Dr. Willi Albert Ritter (1915 - 2000), collected in the diplomatic service until 1980 in Asia - Minor damages and repairs